NY Times argues that everything in America benefited from slaves. So that means that all companies in American benefited from slaves. So companies which advertise in the NY Times benefited from slaves. So why would I want to buy a product which is from a company that benefited from slaves? Which leads to why as a company would I want to advertise with the NY Times?
Because the South had cheap slave labor they didn't industrialize. It was cheaper for Southerners to use slaves then to innovate, build factories, and set up trade routes.
That gave the North a war advantage over the South. Slavery caused the South to accept being a second rate region, kept wages down and allowed wealth for a small number of elites without bringing along most citizens.
Southerns thought their ability to direct and force the movements of slaves was the same as large scale real power. Instead slavery was the power of an abusive husband - power that doesn't translate into anything beyond the home - or plantation...
This collective shared illusion was another reason the South lost.... the power of phony 'elites' is always based on illusion. The South went to war thinking their silly sense of superiority would translate out to wins on the battlefield... they were wrong.
Slaves assisted with giving their phony elites a false sense of superiority... much like poor blacks and illegals make our phony elites think they're superior...
Baquet hates our country... tearing down history is like tearing down statues... done by bullies who fear reality.The New York Times can do better. So not only did most people NOT benefit from slaves - even the slave owners didn't 'benefit' - 0 in the long run... Slavery - cheap labor - was their undoing.