Not, it did not make America rich. The north, largely without slaves, was much more wealthy than the slave-holding south, which is why it won the war.
And yes, “the Founders were flawed, the nation is imperfect, and the Constitution remains a liberty document.”
The retro active guilt manipulation thing will go away when people stop reacting to it. Unfortunately, for those who parse life through “feelz” that won’t be happening soon.
I’m so old I can remember when America’s wealth was an accident of geography.
Whatever the cause, we didn’t build it.
“it did not make America rich.”
If slavery made people richer, we probably would still have slavery. It nice to think people became more moral. it is probably false.
Slavery is like any other crime.
More crime does not make people richer- if it did, why waste public resources trying to reduce crime.
So more freedom, makes everyone richer. Limiting the freedom of any group of people [like women} will just make people poorer.
So, women movement was also not moral issue, it was about stop being dumb.
I think the abolitionists would disagree.
Slavery has a long history. It made people richer in the past. That it doesn’t exist today like it did in the past*, isn’t some sort of natural evolution, it took the work of people whose intent was to end it.
* Slavery still exists, even in some countries where the people are very wealthy.
–Wodun
August 23, 2019 At 2:13 PM
I think the abolitionists would disagree.
Slavery has a long history. It made people richer in the past. That it doesn’t exist today like it did in the past*, isn’t some sort of natural evolution, it took the work of people whose intent was to end it.–
I think the industrial revolution ended slavery- or if industrial revolution is “natural evolution”. then some sort of natural evolution did end slavery.
The industrial revolution allow women to have “enough time”, or without industrial revolution- no women movement.
Turn clock back to “the good times of pre-industrial revolution world order”, you will return to slavery.
Not moral issue, the North were more part of industrial revolution, rather than that they were somehow inherently more moral people- as compared to the South.