…ican capitalism was made up of small scale capitalists — soda shoppes, drycleaners, auto repairmen. And while even that kind of capitalism depended inherently on a segregated society, which itself relied on the surplus produced by slavery, still, the benefits, at least for some, were stability, mobility, and prosperity. Yet this phase of capitalism in America didn’t last very long. From the 1950s to the end of the 196…How America Overdosed on Capitalism4.8K47umair haqueMatheen RazaFollowSep 4, 2018 · 1 min readHow did you conclude that the small-scale businesses relied on the surplus produced by slavery?