Thomas Ramey Watson

Our forebears valued equity (except for slaves)

As new archival research by economists Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson documents, those colonists lived in a society that sported far more equality than mother England. In 1774, on the Revolution’s eve, the colonies probably enjoyed “a more egalitarian income distribution” than “any other place on the planet,” Lindert and Williamson write. Our colonial top …

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