Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

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

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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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What @TrevonDLogan is showing is that the alleged growth benefits of are an illusion — that slavery was a transfer from the enslaved to the enslavers and not some engine of prosperity. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 20, 2022 Hibernated