NEWS FLASH.....BLACK PEOPLE ARE THE ORIGINATORS OF CREATING WEALTH FOR THIS COUNTRY...IT WAS CALLED SLAVERY. AND NO WHITE MAN OR WOMAN LABORED OR TOILED THIS COUNTRY WITHOUT PAY, THAN THAT OF SLAVES OF MY PEOPLE. WITHOUT MY PEOPLE AND PEOPLE OF COLOR, THERE WOULD BE NO RAIL ROADS, NO MILLIONAIRES, NO AMERICA!! OUR LABOR BUILT THIS COUNTRY!!
FFS, they picked cotton. That is not building a country.
(sigh).....uh, the wealth that these plantation owners achieved are the direct result of generations being able to pass on this wealth to future innovators of this nation, like the Vanderbuilts, Morgans, etc....please educate yourself before you send for me, I'm busy!!
Shipping and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) was a self-made multi-millionaire who became one of the wealthiest Americans of the 19th century. As a boy, he worked with his father, who operated a boat that ferried cargo between Staten Island, New York, where they lived, and Manhattan. After working as a steamship captain, Vanderbilt went into business for himself in the late 1820s, and eventually became one of the country’s largest steamship operators. In the process, the Commodore, as he was publicly nicknamed, gained a reputation for being fiercely competitive and ruthless. In the 1860s, he shifted his focus to the railroad industry, where he built another empire and helped make railroad transportation more efficient. When Vanderbilt died, he was worth more than $100 million.
John Pierpont "J.P." Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an
American financier,
banker, philanthropist and art collector who dominated
corporate finance and
industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892, Morgan arranged the merger of
Edison General Electric and
Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form
General Electric. After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company, he merged it in 1901 with the
Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses, including Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, owned by
William Edenborn, to form the
United States Steel Corporation.
Connecting these two to slavery is quite a stretch.