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Saying that this nation was built on the backs of slaves is a lie.
Oh and I also stated that slaves represented 12 percent of the population thus proving your claim to be false.
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Initially, American Indians and indentured servants from England and Ireland were to supply the source of arduous labor for yielding a prodigious tobacco crop, .
Over the aforementioned years they amassed an immeasurable fortune on the backs of West African slaves. Slaves were arriving by the thousands while their owners were enjoying obscene amounts of income. The South in particular became a formidable agricultural society through the expansion of tobacco, rice and indigo plantations and later cotton.
Here is the link: Fredericksburg.com - Slave Labor Built America
Here are more links: Slavery and the Making of America . About the Series | PBS
How Slavery Helped Build a World Economy
The facts speak for themselves. The only thing you offered was pure conjecture. Fact is only a tiny fraction of the trans-Atlantic slaves come to the US. Not near enough to offer the labor required to build a nation.
If slaves were so profitable then why were those in the South poorer than those in the North?
Pennsylvania passed an emancipation law in 1780; Connecticut and Rhode Island followed four years later (all before the Constitution). New York approved emancipation in 1799. These states (with dynamic banking centers in Philadelphia and Manhattan) quickly emerged as robust centers of commerce and manufacturing, greatly enriching themselves while the slave-based economies in the South languished by comparison.
While a few elite families in the Old South undoubtedly based their formidable fortunes on the labor of slaves, the prevailing reality of the planter class involved chronic indebtedness and shaky finances The notion that America based its wealth and development on slave labor hardly comports with the obvious reality that for two hundred years since the founding of the Republic, by far the poorest and least developed section of the nation was precisely that region where slavery once prevailed.
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One of the reasons the Republicans started the Civil War was to free the Blacks for low-cost anti-union labor up North. But they soon found out that the Blacks were too stupid, undisciplined, and lazy to do anything but pick cotton, which they also did poorly. That was the real reason the South was relatively poor: an incompetent workforce fit only for barely surviving in a jungle.
Haiti had been a very rich French colony. But that was based on the French going to extremes to get the lazy blacks to work, something the laid-back Southerners had never bothered to do. When the Haitians freed themselves, they had the same rich potential but were so stupid and lazy they wound up being the poorest country in the Americas.