Slavery and the Economy in the United States

Slavery and the Economy in the United States
<Tab/>Slavery, a cruel and horrible act, has made America a very prosperous place because of it. "Without slavery North America, the most progressive of countries, would be transformed into a patriarchal country" (p 61). Those were the words that Karl Marx wrote in 1846 in his book The Poverty of Philosophy (1846). Africans were brought over from their homelands to work in the plantations owned by white southerners. According to Henry Dodson#, "the Americas were useless without sufficient labor to exploit it...
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