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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. Dig listeners know that the conventional myths of the revolutionary

era, which portray the American war for independence as this simplistic struggle against British

oppression, obscure the founder's interest in accelerating and extending the dispossession of

indigenous peoples land by shaking off British curbs on westward expansion, and you know that

the dominant conceptions of freedom were fundamentally premised on the enslavement of Africans.

William Hogan's book Founding Finance, how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests,

and crackdowns made us a nation, adds another important dimension to our understanding of this

critical period. In this interview conducted by our beloved guest host, Astra Taylor, Hogan's

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