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https://railroads.unl.edu/topics/slavery.php https://railroads.unl.edu/topics/slavery.php The slaves were also recent. >Southern railroad companies began buyi
by 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 agoSlavery didn’t account for the majority of railroads built
- skyyler 3y agoI 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.