Are you making the argument that the bondage, dehumanization, and enslavement of Africans as free labor for white landowners - a scheme upon which the American economy relied - equals good old-fashioned, free-market capitalism?
Because if so, I’m happy to consider your point. twitter.com/peterboykin/st
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For more honest historical context
“Not only did Spain have a huge population of slaves, a population that by the late sixteenth century was mostly composed of individuals of African descent”
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Time and milieu matter in understanding history
“Slavery in the United States ended in 1865,” says Greene, “but in West Africa it was not legally ended until 1875, and then it stretched on unofficially until almost World War I.
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Honestly, I've long felt that the trend among employers was always striving toward paying and providing less to employees. Someone who must work unpaid is just the last stop on that trajectory.
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Remember "company stores" and why people sought to unionize?
They were being exploited and converted into indentured servants, completely dependent upon their employers for survival.
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Woah. Missed that. These questions weren’t answered in the 60’s?🤦🏽♂️
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AKTUALLY...
These men build the system of government that would eventually eliminate slavery and build the greatest engine the world has ever known to lift people out of poverty, and has created more millionaires and billionaires out of poor people than any other system ever!
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