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Old 09-01-2005, 06:07 PM
sam h sam h is offline
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Default Re: two questions about Slavery in the US

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Love it or hate it... slavery is what helped establish us as an economic powerhouse.

Our ability to cheaply harvest goods helped fuel our industrial revolution.

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Wrong. Not only was the industrial revolution primarily catalyzed by other facts, many people think that slavery was actually inefficient in the south and that agricultural production would have been better with a true labor market.
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