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Fabius 5 points ago +5 / -0

America. Was. Built. By. Free. Men.

Slavery hurt America. We're still paying for that shit. None of it was free, and it was vastly inferior to the industrialization of the free states.

Slavery was a net negative for Americans, but a net positive for the 150,000 black slaves lucky enough to come to the U.S., instead of the Caribbean or South America. Only a fraction of the slaves in the Atlantic trade were lucky enough to end up here.