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OK, now explain why anyone should buy into what that guy wrote? Where is the proof that his ignorant words are true?What do you mean by "massively outgrowing the slave states?"if the economy "depended" on "free labor by enslaved Africans" why was the story of the first half of the nation, one of the free states massively outgrowing the slave states and leaving them behind economically?'
Cotton drove the global economy of the time, including the wage-slave "free" states that manufactured the chains, ships, and guns that kept kidnapped Africans and their children enslaved forever.
As proven by the largest single asset class in the US in 1860
Slavery Made America
"...by 1860, there were more millionaires (slaveholders all) living in the lower Mississippi Valley than anywhere else in the United States. In the same year, the nearly 4 million American slaves were worth some $3.5 billion, making them the largest single financial asset in the entire U.S. economy, worth more than all manufacturing and railroads combined."