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From 1865 to 1913 there was no slavery in the US. Just 50 years. That’s it.
And isn’t it amazing how much the economy grew in those 50 years, and how easily people lived?
I have ancestors who went from homestead settlers to large farm owners and major business owners in that time period. Unionists who left the South just a few years before the War to get away from the insanity coming.
Imagine how we all would be living now if the banksters hadn’t shown up in the early ‘oughts of the 20th century.