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Slavery and American Capitalism
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Slavery and American Capitalism

“Slavery was not a sideshow in American History, it was the main event.”
Dr. James Horton, George Mason University.

From the day America was founded, her economic growth was the envy of the rest of the world. Academics and other liberals are pretty consistent in the explanation they offer for this rapid early growth. The nation’s prosperity, they tell us, was built on the backs of black slaves. American capitalism, they say, is so closely linked to slavery that its achievements should always be viewed with shame. This negative portrayal of American enterprise shows up in textbooks, in classrooms, and even in publicly-funded “educational” broadcasting.

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