🌽🌱 New World escape crops made the economics of escape as tempting as its politics.
👮♂️ Colonial officials stigmatized cassava and maize as the lazy natives’ crops — because they let people avoid wage labor.
🏞️ In Central America, they said with cassava, a shotgun, and a fishhook, peasants stopped working for wages.
– James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed
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