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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It made the southern states more prosperous... IF you exclude black people from the definition of people, which is what slavery did.

[–] grue 2 points 1 year ago

IF you exclude black people and also the majority of white people (i.e. everybody who wasn't a member of the planter class), you mean.