1/ As 2019 is the 400th anniversary of the first importation of African slaves to the US, it's important to ponder the counterfactual of what would America be like today if we hadn't done so?
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12/ ...but, to return to a pessimistic note, that'd just mean that they could afford triple wide trailers instead of double wides, and could snort even more oxy.
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14/ But then again, the Harvard progs would have found some other pretext to conquer America and exercise their dominion.
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Mechanization was eliminating slavery We are approaching the time when mechanization is eliminating labor in general Not entirely good, but slavery would have ended on this continent w/o war yet slavery still exists in 2019 where the human machine is the only one available...
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The SSC review of Seeds of Albion suggests that african slavery was the last thing they tried after failing to make their economic model work any other way. OTOH, if they couldn't've tried that and had to either come up with something that did work or starve, who knows.
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