[Vendome]

If slavery were so great an institutional force, how is it that Mexico and other nations, in South America, did not become wealthy?

[Vendome]

Is FR starting to freeze again?

Everytime I post or go to a page it hangs...

[SeekAndFind]

According to The Atlantic Slave Trade an estimated 200,000 enslaved Africans disembarked in New Spain, which later became modern Mexico.

SEE HERE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_D._Curtin

From the beginning, the slaves, who were mostly male, intermarried with indigenous women. In some cases Spanish colonists had unions with female slaves. Spanish colonists created an elaborate racial caste system, classifying people by racial mixture. This system broke down in the very late colonial period; after Independence, the legal notion of race was eliminated.

[ealgeone]

If slavery were so great an institutional force, how is it that Mexico and other nations, in South America, did not become wealthy?

Based on that reasoning the continent of Africa should be one of the most, if not the most, developed and richest area on the planet.

[DiogenesLamp]

If slavery were so great an institutional force, how is it that Mexico and other nations, in South America, did not become wealthy?

Spain.

Seriously, all that slave mined gold and silver made Spain hugely rich.

[hanamizu]

how is it that Mexico and other nations, in South America, did not become wealthy?

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Mexico was wealthy. Our dollar was based on the Spanish milled dollars made in Mexico City and they were legal tender until the 1850s. The Mexican army was better equipped than the U.S. Army at the time of the Mexican War. Better led? Well that’s a different story.

On paper, Mexico with its natural resources should still be wealthy. But its culture, politics and traditions vs ours have left them in the dust.

[JimRed]

...how is it that Mexico and other nations, in South America, did not become wealthy?

The "leadership" in those places became quite wealthy while the people remained poor. That's what the RATs want for us.