This is my berenstain bears moment except the explanation is pervasive white supremacyhttps://twitter.com/rembert/status/826798515728826371 …
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to an outsider, the explanation that "it got more profitable therefore we couldn't phase it out" is also pretty crazy.
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the problem with slavery was surely never that it wasn't profitable enough.
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unsurprisingly, in majority-black Trinidad there is none of this apologist bullshit when we are taught our history of slavery.
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Also: "invented" in the sense that "he legally owned the person who invented it".
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source? i never knew that
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Oh, I guess it's unclear whether Eli himself enslaved the inventor, but it was invented by a slave named "Sam".
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Whitney got the patent, and the historical recognition. Anything more than Sam's first name is lost.
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im googling and finding a lot of diverging info - but yeah it certainly looks like it wasn't clear-cut his invention
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