17 Apr 2022 4:59 pm
Aren't these your words?:Xavier_Onassis » 16 Apr 2022, 3:08 pm » wrote: ↑ Faulty reasoning. Slavery per se does not lead to prosperity. Plantation slavery engaged in for profit production of cash crops, predominantly cotton, tobacco and indigo, are what led to prosperity of the South. After the Civil War, debt peonage of both Black and White sharecroppers, led to prosperity of a select few.
Just as the internal combustion engine in taxis, buses and trucks is profitable, but teenyboppers cruising on weekends is not.
America’s quick wealth began bcuz of slave labor.
How is it any different that the slaves brought here worked plantation farms, while slaves STILL TODAY IN AFRICA are used to dig in that continent's mineral-rich mines, yet those countries are still among the poorest in the world almost 200 years AFTER we ended slavery here? It kind of proves that American wealth DID NOT rise quickly because of slavery as you stated, if no other country has generated the same kind of wealth that we have, don't you think?