Carpetbaggers of Roman Britain

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Carpetbaggers of Roman Britain

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2DinadansFriend
jun 3, 2016, 2:03 pm

Carpetbaggers, as I understand it, is a term to describe opportunists who descended on the South in the wake of the American Civil War, subverting the gracious slave owning society of the south into the nasty share-cropping poverty stricken South of the next century. The Merchants who came to Londinium in the wake of the Roman conquest, built a city where none had existed before, and set up productive businesses, bringing in modern (and slave owning) manufacturing and wholesale distributing concerns. All in all the term "Carpetbagger" should be replaced by "Pioneer" and "Settler". :-)