And that exploited labor did not create a revenue engine without which we never could have gotten out from under the massive debts we accrued fighting the British? Slaves were involved in zero famous construction projects?
Free labor made America great, which is why we fought so hard to hang on to it. Losing free labor would mean losing the original American way of life. And it was lost, as the victims of Reconstruction well know.
Free labor benefited those who used the free labor. Free labor was not "the original American way of life." Slaves were a minority of the population even in the south. Their descendants and other African immigrants are a minority of the population even today.
"We" did not fight so hard to hang onto it. WE fought a bloody war to stop it.
Slaves did not build this country. They were exploited labor for cotton and tobacco exported to Britain.
And that exploited labor did not create a revenue engine without which we never could have gotten out from under the massive debts we accrued fighting the British? Slaves were involved in zero famous construction projects?
Free labor made America great, which is why we fought so hard to hang on to it. Losing free labor would mean losing the original American way of life. And it was lost, as the victims of Reconstruction well know.
Free labor benefited those who used the free labor. Free labor was not "the original American way of life." Slaves were a minority of the population even in the south. Their descendants and other African immigrants are a minority of the population even today.
"We" did not fight so hard to hang onto it. WE fought a bloody war to stop it.