albsure75
albsure75
Jul 23, 2017 · 2 min read

“Hard to keep reading after this statement. To claim that blacks are solely, or even primarily responsible for America’s wealth is Afrocentrist nonsense.”

Just to put you straight.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/slavery-made-america/373288/

“ …by 1860, there were more millionaires (slaveholders all) living in the lower Mississippi Valley than anywhere else in the United States. In the same year, the nearly 4 million American slaves were worth some $3.5 billion, making them the largest single financial asset in the entire U.S. economy, worth more than all manufacturing and railroads combined. So, of course, the war was rooted in these two expanding and competing economies – but competing over what? What eventually tore asunder America’s political culture was slavery’s expansion into the Western territories.”

And the article goes on about the above quote:

I quote that a lot, because it contradicts this idea of enslavement as ancillary to American history, and establishes it as foundational. Blight was pulling from Roger Ransom’s incredible paper, The Economics of the Civil War. Again, the numbers are simply mind-bending – in a state like South Carolina, almost 60 percent of the people were enslaved. Beyond the numbers, Blight’s lectures brought to life the words of the actual people who were enslaved. Pulling from a great number of oral sources, Blight bids us not to forget that there were actual humans, not abstract figures, who were being enslaved.

I think it’s important you understand that no one in America has ever worked for free but black slaves. The business was so huge it resulted in the counties civil war which took more lives than other American conflict prior to Vietnam. Yet you dismiss the economic impact of slavery as if it were a side note.

You my friend are America’s no.1 problem. That’s why it’s a mess because people like your self fail to acknowledge reality.

But I don’t blame you. Ignorance is easy and the default behaviour of mankind.

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