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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Slaves are e human capital. So by definition weren't plantations capitalist?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I think they are very much capitalist. And then surely the Civil War that poors fought on plantation owners' behalf should also be blamed on capitalism?