Neo » 14 Apr 2022, 3:47 pm » wrote: ↑
The topic is literally about money. Slavery wasn't a net positive for the American economy. It's aftermath far exceeds any conceivable benefit. On a human level, the descendants of slaves have immeasurably better qualities of life than they would have had their ancestors remained in Africa.
whatever money some individual Americans may have made from slavery what more than erased from simply the Civil War.
And the usa wasn't a particularly wealthy country until well after the civil war...thanks to our technological innovations (from whites)