So the Crown chartered entire expeditions to send their rejects across the sea to build tobacco empires and wipe out indigenous trade networks?

Right. Ljl.

Tell that to the London Company, or the Dutch West India Co., or to John Winthrop, who wrote about a “City on a Hill” while supervising land thefts.

Tell that to the Mayflower Compact—drafted mid-voyage so no one stabbed each other.

Tell that to me, standing in Safeway, whispering “$hredding won’t save you” into a stack of USDA colonial histories.

They weren’t cast out.

They were early-stage venture capitalists in God’s sandbox.

Everything is fine.

Just fine.

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