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Which areas do you think suffered economically compared to the US due to not using slave labor in the 1700s and 1800s? And if slave labor were an important com
by rufus_foreman 6y ago
Which areas do you think suffered economically compared to the US due to not using slave labor in the 1700s and 1800s?
And if slave labor were an important component driving the relative wealth of the US, wouldn't you expect the abolition of slavery to decrease the relative wealth of the US?
But that isn't what we see in the decades after the abolition of slavery in the US: "In the last third of the 19th century the United States entered a phase of rapid economic growth which doubled per capita income over the period. By 1895, the United States leaped ahead of Britain for first place in manufacturing output." See also, "Gilded Age".