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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH, Tuesday, December 20, 2011. [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)20. For the first 100 years (not to mention the 2 centuries before)
America was built on slave labor, too, especially in the South. The White House was built with slave labor. 16 of the first 18 Presidents were slave owners, if I recall correctly.
That's why 1848-68 was seminal history. Serfs and slaves all over the West were liberated, to varying degrees, and Marx printed his manifesto.
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