What you’re talking about slavery...discussions of productivity rates falling really don’t have a place at the table.
If no blackamoor were ever allowed to set foot on NOrth America is more like if
This has been universally the case upon the end of slavery. Slave societies associate work with slavery, and leisure with wealth. In a bourgeoise or middle class, or capitalist society, work is expected. People don’t go automatically from slavery to bourgeoise. There is a time of transition that can be quite long. If you’re a citizen of a slave state, this transition period is costly. Freeing the slaves is going to mean a dysfunctional society for some time. But, if you want to think the experiences in British Caribbean with compensated emancipation didn’t play a role in hardening the South against emancipation, fine. It’s all history now. But, the lesson has current application, for example, the end of communism in East Germany. The generation that was formed prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall never adjusted to life as free citizens. They just eventually became irrelevant. Ditto if ever North and South Korea were to be united. Fee of the people of North Korea would be able to function as citizens of a free society.