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The land was not stolen any more than the native Americans stole it from someone else. Did they have no war before the Europeans came? America had slavery, bu
by patrickg_zill 8y ago
The land was not stolen any more than the native Americans stole it from someone else. Did they have no war before the Europeans came?
America had slavery, but unlike untold other empires and large countries, it ended it. It owes very little if any part of its port-1865 prosperity to the work of slaves, given the destruction wrought by the Civil War.