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2. The slaves were the oil of early America. Unlimited energy at a very low price. Also all those big

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Dec 19, 2015, 09:20 PM

Dec 2015

houses in Britain and France were the result of a Caribbean sugar plantation or the like. All in all, generations of wealth was stolen from those people.

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How Slaves Built American Capitalism [View all] Judi Lynn Dec 2015 OP

Have the British ever been held accountable? JonathanRackham Dec 2015 #1

The slaves were the oil of early America. Unlimited energy at a very low price. Also all those big applegrove Dec 2015 #2

To think a once beautiful and lush country was turned into vast concentration camps fasttense Dec 2015 #3