Re: two questions about Slavery in the US
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Question 2: How different would the US be today if slavery had never been used?
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Your questions imply we have quit using slavery -- I don't believe we have. It's now a position that the enslaved can work out of, or educate themselves out of -- that's good. It's no longer a position the enslaved are born into -- that's good. But has it gone away? No. Even reading Adam Smith in 177? he understood it. He recommended freeing the slaves because it was cheaper to do so -- what we have today looks a lot like what he proposed.
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