Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

But then Lincoln was elected, we had the Civil War, we had emancipation, the global economy kept functioning, but we also continued to have lots of debates among economists and historians about American slavery and its operation and global function. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 20, 2022 Hibernated

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Back in the 1840s and 1850s, America’s enslavers liked to argue that slavery had all kinds of amazing benefits for the country and the world at large — that it wasn’t just a relatively small number of people exploiting others for their personal enrichment. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 20, 2022 Hibernated

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One odd twist in the scholarly literature is that some historians came around to offering a left-wing version of the old pro-slavery argument, alleging that slavery was a huge growth accelerant and possibly even responsible for all of modern industrial prosperity. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 20, 2022 Hibernated