A better way to put it is what PJB said 20 years ago: Virginia could assimilate a million Englishmen more easily than a million Zulus.
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It wasn't a very efficient or modern economy
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The best contemporary economic historians, from Fogelman to Baptist, argue it was very efficient & undergrid USA capitalism. That's why it was so hard to end.
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your best example of an assimilated society is one group being enslaved by the other?
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If you look at Blacks and Whites in Virginia today, it'd be pretty hard to say they have assimilated into a single body.... It's pretty obvious they're *STILL* two distinct groups, 400 years later...pic.twitter.com/zTfuU6wEUK
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