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Yes, I am arguing that. There is no way the US is the world power it was through the late 1800s and beyond, without centuries of coercion [0]. [0] https://www.
by ikeyany 7y ago
Yes, I am arguing that. There is no way the US is the world power it was through the late 1800s and beyond, without centuries of coercion [0].
[0] https://www.history.com/news/slavery-profitable-southern-economy https://www.history.com/news/slavery-profitable-southern-eco...
- philwelch 7y agoOne of the key arguments against slavery was that it help the South back from being able to have a modern, industrial economy. If slavery was the key ingredient to being a world power, the slave states would not have had their asses thoroughly handed to them by the free states in the Civil War.
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