No, Slaves Didn't Build America

[Rightguide]

No, Slaves Didn't Build This Country​

By Brandon Morse | 11:30 AM on February 14, 2023

First things first, we need to torpedo this idea that slaves built this country. While it’d be unrealistic to say they weren’t a part of the nation’s development, putting them as the prime constructors of an entire nation is like saying the guy who crafted the axle at the car factory built your vehicle. He was definitely a part of it, but he hardly gets to take full credit.

So many kinds of people came to the new world and worked their own land, built their own towns, and established their own societies without the help of slaves. For one, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade transported well over 12 million slaves, but only a little over 300,000 made their way into the United States. This didn’t happen all at once. Slavery did officially begin in 1619, but it began with just over 20 slaves.

To think that over the course of time that singular group of people built an entire nation — even a burgeoning one — by themselves is the height of fantasy. Especially as you continue to plug in the numbers.

"But in a longer struggle the North’s advantages were substantial. With a population of 20 million, the Northern states obviously possessed a much larger military manpower base, but their industrial capacity was far greater as well. In 1860 the North had over 110,000 manufacturing establishments, the South just 18,000. The North produced 94 percent of the country’s iron, 97 percent of is coal and – not incidentally – 97 percent of its firearms. It contained 22,000 miles of railroad to the South’s 8,500. The North outperformed the South agriculturally as well. Northerners held 75 percent of the country’s farm acreage, produced 60 percent of its livestock, 67 percent of its corn, and 81 percent of its wheat. All in all, they held 75 percent of the nation’s total wealth.”

More here: https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2023/02/14/no-slaves-didnt-build-this-country-n703440

The above of course completely destroys the notion that black slaves built this country.

 

[ll74]

Yes, they did

This is a dumb argument meant to dismiss the immense contribution of slaves

Not to mention, it ignores the main problem - slaves weren't here by choice.

 

[ll74]

So many kinds of people came to the new world and worked their own land, built their own towns, and established their own societies without the help of slaves.

So many people made the choice to come here.

Slaves did not.

 

[schism666]

asians didn't build the railroads either.
and vette didn't run from isis.

 

[Britva415]

You might as well say "white guys didn't use gold, coal and natural resources to build America either."

 

[Rightguide]

Yes, they did

This is a dumb argument meant to dismiss the immense contribution of slaves

Not to mention, it ignores the main problem - slaves weren't here by choice.

You're full of shit. There were no slaves in the North which built more, produced more, and innovated more, than the South which employed slaves. What was built in the South was completely leveled by the Republican anti-slavery North. It was rebuilt under a new system imposed upon it by the anti-slavery North. The anti-slave states were not built by slaves. So, go back to sleep.

 

[Rightguide]

You might as well say "white guys didn't use gold, coal and natural resources to build America either."

Slavery was not an industry below the Mason Dixon Line.

 

[Britva415]

Slavery was not an industry below the Mason Dixon Line.

What were the industries there?

 

[BluesDriver66]

Epic generational wage theft (beyond the kidnapping, torture, and rape of men, women, and children).

 

[ll74]

You're full of shit. There were no slaves in the North which built more, produced more, and innovated more, than the South which employed slaves. What was built in the South was completely leveled by the Republican anti-slavery North. It was rebuilt under a new system imposed upon it by the anti-slavery North. The anti-slave states were not built by slaves. So, go back to sleep.

There were absolutely slaves in the north.

You're an idiot.

 

[Britva415]

There were absolutely slaves in the north.

You're an idiot.

Escaped ones, sure.

Or did you mean before 1820

 

[Britva415]

The anti-slave states were not built by slaves.

The North profited greatly from the goods the South produced with slave labor.

(That's why I asked above what the industries in the South were. I already know the answer. I wanted you to think about where those products went.)

You rightly point out the North's innovation and industry. You conveniently left out that the South's production of cheap raw materials based on free labor made the North's success possible.

And people knew it at the time, too. Northern abolitionists had their houses burned down by Northern industrialists.

 

[ll74]

Escaped ones, sure.

Or did you mean before 1820

Lol....I'm assuming you know that the country started being built before 1820....

 

[Britva415]

Lol....I'm assuming you know that the country started being built before 1820....

Of course, that's absolutely why I mentioned it.

I wasn't defending OP.

 

[ll74]

Of course, that's absolutely why I mentioned it.

I wasn't defending OP.

Rhode Island had the most slaves at one time.

And slaves weren't here by choice.

 

[phrodeau]

Anyone who used or benefited from the trade of cotton, tobacco, sugar, or any of hundreds of crops profited from slavery. If that profit was put to use in industry, that industry owes its existence to slavery.

 

[ll74]

The cotton and tobacco industries drove the country into economic prosperity and made it the leader in the world. It drove everything forward

 

[Rightguide]

The North profited greatly from the goods the South produced with slave labor.

(That's why I asked above what the industries in the South were. I already know the answer. I wanted you to think about where those products went.)

You rightly point out the North's innovation and industry. You conveniently left out that the South's production of cheap raw materials based on free labor made the North's success possible.

And people knew it at the time, too. Northern abolitionists had their houses burned down by Northern industrialists.

That's BS. What happened to the North after they destroyed most of the South? The South was mostly an agrarian society. The North had plenty of farms and other food production.

 

[ll74]

That's BS. What happened to the North after they destroyed most of the South? The South was mostly an agrarian society. The North had plenty of farms and other food production.

They didn't destroy most of the south. They won a civil war. The cotton and tobacco industries still drove the economy after the civil war.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Ah, conservatives like to try and re-write history and white wash the facts.

You are a lowlife, vetteguide. No wonder your wife left your sorry, racist ass.

 

[Rotadom]

The OP usually does a better (not good) job of hiding his racism.
Yesterday was Baltimore and today is slavery.

 

[ll74]

The OP usually does a better (not good) job of hiding his racism.
Yesterday was Baltimore and today is slavery.

Well, it's black history month. They need to deflect attention back to them. ...the real victims

 

[Rotadom]

Well, it's black history month. They need to deflect attention back to them. ...the real victims

He should have went with, "Slaves built Baltimore and that's why it's so messed up!"

 

[Misshotndeep]

Just gonna point out that at the founding of our country and up until the civil war, cotton and tobacco were this countries biggest exports. Their sale paid for the American revolution. Who picked those? It wasn’t freed people.

 

[Rotadom]

Just gonna point out that at the founding of our country and up until the civil war, cotton and tobacco were this countries biggest exports. Their sale paid for the American revolution. Who picked those? It wasn’t freed people.

Did you post that whilst eating avocado toast and strawberries?