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2025-08-24 -Great Cultural Revolution

‘Sloppy scholarship': New book refutes claim early U.S. economy was built on slavery

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Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-08-24 02:24|| || Front Page|| [84 views ] Top

#1 Most of that cotton based economy was destroyed by 1865, the period afterward was marked by significant economic growth in the rest of the country. Britain had switched to India for its cotton source. The regional economy of the South would remain moribund till the WW2.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-08-24 07:32|| 2025-08-24 07:32|| Front Page Top

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