LilOlLady
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youd be naked on the street with nothing without us whites.
Before there was American history, there was Black historyhttps://www.savannahnow.com/story/lifestyle/2021/02/09/u-s-history-has-failed-black-americans-savannah/44403670
Others invented things (by blacks) we can’t live without. For the time conscious, Benjamin Banner (1731-1806) made the first clock in America. For those who appreciate good quality shoes, Jan Matzeliger (1852-89) invented the shoe lasting machine that produced shoes 10 times faster than those made by hand. Thomas Edison’s light would not shine long without the carbon filament designed by Lewis Latimer (1848-1928). Voices were barely heard over Alexander Bell’s phone, so Granville Woods (1856-1910) designed a transmitter that simultaneously improved the quality of sound and carried that sound over longer distances.
African Americans, both slave and free also made significant contributions to the economy and infrastructure working on roads, canals, and construction of cities.By 1840, the South grew 60 percent of the world's cotton and provided some 70 percent of the cotton consumed by the British textile industry. Thus slavery paid for a substantial share of the capital, iron, and manufactured goods that laid the basis for American economic growth
Now the biggest contributors to the us economy is illegal aliens.