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    Cherith CutestoryAndy Cush
    8/03/16 12:06pm

    If Natchez had a lot of millionaires, it’s because they didn’t have to pay for labor.

    I think the implication goes deeper than that. Those slaves were almost certainly counted as a portion of their assets. And, thus, they were literally part of their wealth.

    They were millionaires because 71% of the population were their assets.

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      mathildadiehlCherith Cutestory
      8/03/16 12:15pm

      That is an excellent point! Thinking about assessing wealth in terms of people held in bondage just gave me the cold shivers for a minute.

      But! I definitely feel offended that the First Lady said that the White House was built by slaves. HOW DARE SHE MAKE ME UNCOMFORTABLE? /s

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      OdinrebornCherith Cutestory
      8/03/16 12:22pm

      that is a very good point

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    Flow BeeAndy Cush
    8/03/16 12:00pm

    And so concludes another episode of, “White people being utterly clueless when it comes to race!”

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      MBCockFlow Bee
      8/03/16 12:01pm

      HAPPY BIRTHDAY LYNCHBURG!!!

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      VtDkDudeFlow Bee
      8/03/16 12:03pm

      It’s what we do best!

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    MajorBurnAndy Cush
    8/03/16 12:02pm
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      Football is USAs Biggest Religion And Thats SadMajorBurn
      8/03/16 1:31pm

      Probably the truest meme I’ve ever seen

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      TheDefenestratorofPragueMajorBurn
      8/03/16 1:37pm

      But according to Bill O’Reilly, some were well fed!

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    SlickWillieAndy Cush
    8/03/16 12:08pm

    Those that don’t know history are doomed to retweet it

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      Sid and FinancySlickWillie
      8/03/16 12:22pm

      I hope this is original. It is brilliant.

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      SlickWillieSid and Financy
      8/03/16 12:23pm

      It’s all me.

      That being said, someone apparently thought of it before me. Still, I’m proud of it.

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    JustActSurprisedAndy Cush
    8/03/16 12:04pm

    Off topic - though as someone curious about North American History and trade at that time - I realized I had never thought about slavery in Canada vs. the United States. Turns out our neighbors to the north barely participated until 1833, when it was formally ended. Interesting stuff.

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      Venus_in_fursJustActSurprised
      8/03/16 12:10pm

      Fascinating stuff.

      The Act Against Slavery was passed in 1793, although it didn’t emancipate current slaves, and children born to slaves would not be freed until age 25. It did prevent new slaves from entering Upper Canada.

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      JustActSurprisedVenus_in_furs
      8/03/16 12:12pm

      It’s funny that we don’t talk about it more, considering our comparable histories. Of course, lately Canada has been getting the better of us (in terms of their democratic socialism) albeit a weak dollar.

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    HerniaSandersAndy Cush
    8/03/16 11:58am

    “Before the Civil War, any prosperity in Mississippi—and all of the U.S., really—was had thanks to the violent subjugation of black people.”

    [Citation Needed]

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      festivusaziliHerniaSanders
      8/03/16 12:45pm

      lmgtfy

      http://economics.ucr.edu/papers/papers0…

      the enrichment of the slaveowners was vast: from $291 million in 1805 to more than $3 billion in 1860, a ten-fold increase. Slave capital represented 44 percent of all wealth in the cotton-growing states in 1859, the largest single component.

      That’s not even counting the profit from their labor; that’s just the market value of the slaves themselves.

      I realize from your name and comment history that you are probably a troll, but damn. Who is starring that dumbass comment?

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      ghostandgoblinfestivusazili
      8/03/16 12:59pm

      Many states were not cotton growing, though. According to that article, by 1860 only a quarter of Southern families owned slaves, which means that there was a lot of economic activity unrelated to slave holdings even in slaveowning states.

      Cush is saying that, say, industrial New York’s wealth was driven by slavery, so yea actually a citation would be helpful on that.

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    Denver is too damn highAndy Cush
    8/03/16 1:02pm

    I’m personally surprised the US census counted non-whites, in 1860 classified their ‘occupation’

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      SrynersonDenver is too damn high
      8/03/16 1:38pm

      It was relevant for congressional representation purposes — representation was based on the number of people, with slaves counting as 3/5ths of a person.

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      Denver is too damn highSrynerson
      8/03/16 1:43pm

      Right.. I thought that was post civil war for some reason.

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    ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeAndy Cush
    8/03/16 12:01pm

    Lol, everything is about slavery with you people. Totally neglecting the burgeoning bootstrap industry in the area that was decimated after the Corporate War of Northern Expansion.

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      Huple's Cat╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      8/03/16 12:20pm

      Whaddaya mean, “you people”?!

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      Odinreborn╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      8/03/16 12:24pm

      Its like Bernie bros and the KKK made sweet love and gave birth to a post.

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    Fred SmithAndy Cush
    8/03/16 1:25pm

    That’s a sick burn, but there’s no end to this particular game. You can’t point to very many facets of American wealth creation that was untouched by slavery before the Civil War.

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      SrynersonFred Smith
      8/03/16 1:36pm

      Your second sentence is the end to this particular game, as flagged by Cush’s statement, “Before the Civil War, any prosperity in Mississippi—and all of the U.S., really—was had thanks to the violent subjugation of black people.” (Emphasis added.)

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      Fred SmithSrynerson
      8/03/16 1:41pm

      But it’s not really the end. If you’re going to play this game, then you can’t stand in the Sistine Chapel without thinking about the slave labor that enriched the Catholic church and made such a wondrous work of art possible.

      I’m all for being woke, but it all starts to sound like Lambchop after a while.

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    ArkAndy Cush
    8/03/16 12:01pm

    That’s a lot of millionaires—where do you think they got all their money?

    By pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and building a successful business all by thems-oh, slavery. Right.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeArk
      8/03/16 12:02pm

      Jinx!

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