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The idea that slavery was essential to the thriving of the American colonies is flawed and not true. Whatever economic system we had would have worked, because the people who were here would have done the job needed regardless of what institutions we had.

Slavery in the American colonies was an accident of history. Slavery was used by Spain, England, the Netherlands, France and others at the time, so it was adopted here. But it was not ever essential to our survival. Societies just go along with what is accepted around the world, and slavery was accepted at the time.

Some people act as if no one would ever do manual labor unless they were a slave. Clearly this is not true, and reflects the general laziness of people today than it reflects on the facts of history.