salarua@sopuli.xyz to United States | News & PoliticsEnglish · 2 years ago'Do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial'www.rawstory.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down17cross-posted to: usa@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1116arrow-down1external-link'Do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial'www.rawstory.comsalarua@sopuli.xyz to United States | News & PoliticsEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square13fedilinkcross-posted to: usa@lemmy.ml
minus-squarerhythmicotterlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoIt made the southern states more prosperous… IF you exclude black people from the definition of people, which is what slavery did.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoIF you exclude black people and also the majority of white people (i.e. everybody who wasn’t a member of the planter class), you mean.
It made the southern states more prosperous… IF you exclude black people from the definition of people, which is what slavery did.
IF you exclude black people and also the majority of white people (i.e. everybody who wasn’t a member of the planter class), you mean.