example of this with about one-half of the original topsoil of the Great Plains having disappeared since the beginning of agricultural production there in the 1880s. Outside of the context of colonialism, many past civilizations' collapses can be attributed to topsoil depletion.

Soil depletion and enslavement

As historian David Silkenat explains, the goals of Southern plantation and slave owners, instead of measuring productivity

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