The writer has the historical time lines confused. BS.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1467597465792745483 …
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No, bringing up the cotton gin is a distraction (a deliberate one) from the fact slavery was already profitable & it was understood ending slave trade would help Virginia.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1467709318296395782 …
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probably worth saying that Madison records one of the Pinckneys (Charles Cotesworth, I think) as arguing at the constitutional convention that Virginia would benefit from a ban on the importation of enslaved people because it could sell its surplus of slaves at inflated value pic.twitter.com/RlkcRZSSus
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