[rbg81]

The argument that the US economic system was built in the back of slaves is a stretch

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Up to maybe 1840, you could make that argument (in the South). However, it ends there. Most of our wealth is attributable to the Industrial Revolution. The contribution of slaves to the IR was about zero.

[IronJack]

After the IR and Emancipation, all the displaced slaves became a liability rather than a labor asset. And many of them remain so to this very day.

“You freed them, you feed them.” We’ve been doing it for a century and a half now.

[Nifster]

Which is exactly what I said