"Now, after the material resources of the colonies have been looted, their spiritual and cultural resources are being transformed into commodities for the world market."

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The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new nation--all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution. With the English out of the way, it could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate by the Constitution of the United States.

— Howard Zinn