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In reply to the discussion: How the end of slavery led to starvation and death for millions of black Americans [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)41. a city needs *labor* to be built. without slaves there would not have been enough *labor*
willing to do the building. which is why slavery is a typical economic strategy in sparsely populated areas, new colonization, etc.
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FarCenter
Jun 2012
OP
and then fled to northern industrial cities looking for work, where they were exploited further,
dionysus
Jun 2012
#1
Oh great, right wingers will use this as justification for saying slavery was better.
Zalatix
Jun 2012
#2
Their argument, back in the 1840s and 50s, was that slaves were better off as slaves than
coalition_unwilling
Jun 2012
#9
Thanks for making the point. It was my immediate thought as soon as I saw it, too. Hideous. n/t
Judi Lynn
Jun 2012
#13
All because the Union wasn't willing to grant the slaves the rights to THEIR PROPERTY
Scootaloo
Jun 2012
#3
so what? slaves cleared built a lot of pre-colonial and colonial NY. they laid the foundations
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#35
a city needs *labor* to be built. without slaves there would not have been enough *labor*
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#41
But people built New York before then. And of course people have built most of it after that time.nt
Honeycombe8
Jun 2012
#46
people built ny before the pre-colonial period? slaves were in NY from its foundation & did most
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#48
Not anywhere near the role that slavery played in building NYC, both through direct slave labor &
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#58
a big chunk of the money that built it "after that time" came from financing the slave trade and
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#49
And as the descendant of one of those northern soldiers I am not foolish enough to think that most
jwirr
Jun 2012
#28
I believe they were more capable at handling famine and food shortages than their former owners.
YellowRubberDuckie
Jun 2012
#24
I didn't read the study, but saying lots of freed slaves died 1862-1870 is meaningless...
Honeycombe8
Jun 2012
#25
It's always a good idea to state the obvious. So few do, and are surprised by it when it's uttered.
Igel
Jun 2012
#32
So this author assumes there weren't deaths related to being a slave. And his assumption that
jwirr
Jun 2012
#27
that so-called English 'gentleman' Thomas Carlyle wanted us to starve as welll -
malaise
Jun 2012
#33
I would not have judged the freed slaves poorly if they had taken their back pay by force. nt
ZombieHorde
Jun 2012
#38
a more correct title: "Poor transition plan led to starvation and death for millions of black..."
maggiesfarmer
Jun 2012
#39