Yep, it's convenient today to connect the two or to pretend that America's (or Britain's) success in the early day was largely a product of slavery. But even wh

Yep, it's convenient today to connect the two or to pretend that America's (or Britain's) success in the early day was largely a product of slavery. But even when slavery ended there was hardly a sudden decline in prosperity, that engine kept accelerating. > Slavery didn't make America rich. It made a few Southerners rich and a few Northerners rich, but it didnt make the country rich. > Another way to look at it is, the Confederacy was a loose collection of agricultural states. The real money was made by the industrial northern states. In the north were mills, factories, ship building, and steel mills. https://www.quora.com/How-much-did-slavery-contribute-to-American-wealth/answer/ElbyJames https://www.quora.com/How-much-did-slavery-contribute-to-Ame... American capitalism (and the labour movements that reacted to it) was built in the factories and mills, not the farms in the south.