Or, if you like, if Yglesias were correct than Brazil should be the most prosperous country in the world, except for maybe Saudi Arabia, which has lots of oil and only ended slavery in the 1960s
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Slavery or the lack thereof.....did not crash the South's economy.....it was war.........the burning of Atlanta, farmland, factories, starvation, loss of life......The 1% who actually owned slaves came out alright..... Everyone else suffered for it though....
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Also the British were getting their cotton from Egypt by this point.
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