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Capitalist. Exploitation and cheating sure, but the railroads are recent.

• skyyler 3y ago
  https://railroads.unl.edu/topics/slavery.php https://railroads.unl.edu/topics/slavery.php The slaves were also recent. >Southern railroad companies began buying slaves as early as the 1840s and used enslaved labor almost exclusively to construction their lines. Thousands of African Americans worked on the southern railroads in the 1850s There is a temporal overlap between "slave america" and "railroad america".
  • newsclues 3y ago
    Slavery didn’t account for the majority of railroads built
    • skyyler 3y ago
      I know. But your comment seemed to imply that railroads are much more recent than slavery when there is in fact significant overlap. This type of subtle historical revisionism is used to distance ourselves from the horrors of slavery. I don't think it was a conscious effort on your part, though. Don't take this as an attack, please. It's just a gentle reminder that slavery isn't actually all that ancient of a practice.