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Originally posted by Beestie
[What are you referring to here? Slavery? I don't really think America really owes its success or any major part thereof to slavery henious as it was.
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That's going to come as a big surprise to anyone from a formerly Confederate state, most of which complained that the abolishment of slavery would destroy their economies.
This chart has the
1860 Population of the United States. Note that %12 of the total US population were slaves. Concentrated in the South, they were more than %50 of the population of some states. This means they were largely responsible for the economy of the South, which provided food and raw materials to the North as well as international trade.
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