Not a single, solitary word of that has a grain a truth to it. Economic growth was greatly inhibited by slavery.
A line you will never hear or see by dems,especially black dems........
If Africa had not sold it’s own people in exchange for wealth,there would have been no black slaves for anyone to buy.....BUT AFRICA’S GREED DESTROYED BLACKS,NOT SLAVEOWNERS......
‘Even the American Revolution was fought mainly to preserve slavery.’
This howler should be spiked every time it appears. Some commie ignoramus started the meme that the Revolution was sparked in part due to fear in the colonies that Parliament would soon ban slavery. Since slavery was not abolished in the British empire until the 1830’s and the slave trade was legal until 1807 this claim is pure fabrication.
This generally inaccurate statement appears to be grounded in very poor scholarship by using to widely available texts, ‘Capitalism and Slavery ‘ by Sir Eric Williams and “Sinews of Empire, A short History of British Slavery’ by Michael Craton, and transposing their British oriented theme wholesale into the narrative of American economic development. While there was some part of the capital accumulation necessary fund the beginnings of both finance capitalism and manufacturing was generated by trade in slaves and trade with the ‘sugar islands’ it appears insignificant beside the degree to which the same processes in Great Britain were financed by the profits from the sugar islands in the 18th century. This sort of crude propagandizing and deliberate misrepresentation or suppression of evidence that doesn’t support the 1619 thesis ought expel the academics that push this narrative from the ranks of serious scholar.
And still is as there are many decedents of slavery that we still have to drag behind us.