It is well established that slavery did not fuel this country’s economy, it was a drag on it.
A modern Liberal education. (Minimal facts)
It is leftists who actually read a book, getting sucked into “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by the Leftist Delta Bravo, Jared Diamond.
Like college students, they are simply manipulated by the last thing anyone told them.
Of course it didn’t.
Less than 13% of people in the South owned slaves during the slave period.
“The open borders movement is not just a child of the American left but also has many adherents among libertarians. Simply put, their argument is that immigrants have historically brought new ideas and energy to the American economy, making everyone better off. That was largely true before the advent of the welfare state, which Milton Friedman and others realized necessitated some reasonable restrictions of immigration. “
“In the past, most new immigrants wanted to get away from the institutions and practices of their old country that made life miserable, and readily adopted what is known as the American Way. Now, there are some immigrant groups that seek to bring their old institutions to America, like Sharia law”
If slavery were so great an institutional force, how is it that Mexico and other nations, in South America, did not become wealthy?
I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Africa and have trained a significant number of officers from different African countries. It never ceases to amaze me how their understanding of the slavery issue differs so greatly from that of Americans, particularly white liberals and the race baiters who profit from the racism industry. One friend took me to the remains of an old slave camp on the coast of Mozambique and told me, “This is as far as the Dutch and British came. Tribes from further inland brought and sold slaves captured from other tribes to the slave traders.”
“Both North and South America were colonized by European countries that practiced slavery, and the United States was not the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery.”
Not to mention basically the entirety of the Caribbean where most indigenous peoples were wiped out completely.
And one knows that those who came learned from those here already and those here learned from the newcomers.
There was not as much exploitation then as there is now by the big corporations, the globalists, idiots who propagandize and the illegal aliens.
bkmk
Good article.
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” Lincoln’s Second Inaugural AddressBesides, slavery is hardly unique to North America, or to that era. The only literature you will be able to find in history defending the institution is from the American South because the institution was so universal historically that it had never needed defense anywhere else or at any other time.