V in history and w.a.s.t.e

[Mark Kohut]

It's 1547 and England has passed a law allowing perceived vagrants--poor, homeless--to be branded with a V. 

Armchair " voyager" Englishman Hakluyt, salesman for the New World, wrote not of terra firma but of the entire continent as the " waste firm of America". 
------------from WHITE TRASH

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