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Old 06-14-2021, 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser View Post
US economy "NOT based on slave labor"? I remember reading that from colonial days onward, cotton cheaply raised by slave labor, created GREAT early wealth that stayed with the US even till today.
Nope, only about 40 years, from about 1820-1860 and then share cropping replaced the cotton driven economy.
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