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Long Live Charles the I, II, III
The Condensed History of Slavery Corporations and Detached Reverence
This coronation of Charles the III gives us a glimpse into the history of the slave trading structural change of presentation and acceptance of corporate malfeasance. By comparison of the three Charles monarchs, we can see the radical changes that occurred between the first and second one, and how the third one now, centuries later, massively profits still from that image structure change.
This critical change is how the visibility of monarchy brings about a type of grandiose presentation of autocracy that becomes acceptable to the masses through a blasé disconnect from the negative side of autocracy — i.e., the plundering, profiteering, and immorality that vastly perpetrated their families reigns deep into the twentieth century.
Those Americans in the British South, the King’s Southern slave colonies operating under his control, were major profit centers due for him, his extended family, and his court of aristocrats. Leading up to 1776, the King profited not just through control of *his* colonies extended by governors or mini-kings acting on his behalf to lord over each colony, but through the aristocrats under the monarch who worked by ‘invisible’ corporate control. That shift to a shareholder structure still created profit, or *his* share of the work in his empire…