they didn't bring slaves from halfway across the world to be unproductive, their contribution was very real. the dumb meme takes cotton in a literal sense rather than the cotton's net positive effect on the economy in the context of how popular a commodity it was at the time. Cotton, sugar and tobacco made America rich at the time, which paved the way for it to be the most productive country in the world today. it's not really difficult to wrap your head around

Nope, they literally picked cotton lmao.

Peanut butter was good too I guess.

it takes a lot more than slavery to build America's economy

i agree. however it is undeniable that picking very popular commodities on a huge scale had a huge positive effect on America's economy.

It's a huge blow to the ego to accept that you were a slave for little to no reason and your ancestors didn't really have that big of an impact on the building of this country, I understand all of that and with a little humility they can start looking towards the future instead of dwelling on an unnecessary past.

the immoral act of slavery slowed technological progress and it is a great thing that a republican ended slavery in America
I wonder if a republican can end the welfare plantation in America next

This post was edited by majorblood on Sep 25 2016 03:04am

Slavery was on the way out, technology and upkeep costs were going to kill it, with or without a war.

Wouldn't have stopped white bois from wanting to kill each other, there is nothing Europeans do better than start wars and fight.

This post was edited by j0ltk0la on Sep 25 2016 03:13am

this post is why i hate white people

i'm not white lmao

How Marxist of you

but no. Picking the cotton demanded manual labour even though technology meant that it could better processed - this actually lead to an explosive growth in both cotton production and the amount of slaves.
Mechanical cotton picking only became viable much, much later.

There's also a lot going on with other cash crops/demands on the soil and blahblah - but the big picture is that slavery was actually expanding.