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HiPointDem

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15. dude, you can start your education with the link in the post you just responded to. here it is

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Reply #14)

Wed Feb 20, 2013, 12:58 AM

Feb 2013

again:

http://www.slavenorth.com/profits.htm

"On the eve of the Revolution, the slave trade formed the very basis of the economic life of New England.”

I'm actually fairly shocked that someone posting at DU doesn't know about slavery and the slave trade in the North, or the extent to which Northern industrial and financial fortunes were built on it. Or the extent to which Northerners extracted profits from the Southern slave economy (the Brown Brothers, later Brown Brothers Harriman capital was built on the slave trade, for example).

The Ivies were all built on slave and opium profits.

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Salon: The “original sin” of the Southern political class is cheap, powerless labor [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2013 OP

I still think slavery is the original sin. senseandsensibility Feb 2013 #1

Slavery is the ultimate cheap powerless labor DBoon Feb 2013 #2

If Slavery IS the Original Sin, bvar22 Feb 2013 #3

Yes, they've made an adjustment to have to pay some minimal wages CanonRay Feb 2013 #30

I believe it Canuckistanian Feb 2013 #4

Hmmm... moondust Feb 2013 #5

This is not so much a figment of the South anymore Major Nikon Feb 2013 #6

It is no coincidence that the South had the lowest percentage of union representation. alarimer Feb 2013 #7

what? HiPointDem Feb 2013 #8

Funny thing is the article you link to doesn't support what you wrote. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2013 #9

child labor wasn't any better in the us than in england, and everything i wrote is true. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #11

Sorry buddy I don't buy your revisionist BS Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2013 #12

lol. you don't know your history. 'revisionist' is people who pretend slavery = only the south. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #13

Dude you haven't supported your argument. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2013 #14

dude, you can start your education with the link in the post you just responded to. here it is HiPointDem Feb 2013 #15

here's another: HiPointDem Feb 2013 #16

Thank you HPD pecwae Feb 2013 #18

Much appreciated, HiPointDem cordelia Feb 2013 #19

I had the same reaction as you - lynne Feb 2013 #20

Thank you! You are absolutely correct. It's remarkable how many people just don't know..... OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #21

link looks interesting; thanks! real american history is way more interesting and educational HiPointDem Feb 2013 #25

Thank you for an informative series of posts on this important topic. n/t Laelth Feb 2013 #28

I tell that to my two kids every time they have a test in what they now call "Social Studies".... OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #29

Dude you still haven't proven your point. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2013 #38

you seem to think my point is "the north had slaves too." but my point is that slave-trade HiPointDem Feb 2013 #40

and this Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #22

I read the Jungle in 9th grade. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2013 #39

And Snyder & gang is trying to bring that model to MI. I can see the "Pure Michigan" catbyte Feb 2013 #10

Mammon Vs. America Berlum Feb 2013 #17

There was an interesting AlterNet article on a similar subject back in June 2012 LongTomH Feb 2013 #23

the reforms came largely because 1) elite northern abolitionists had already made their nut & HiPointDem Feb 2013 #27

It still is ... ananda Feb 2013 #24

Excellent eaasy. k&r n/t Laelth Feb 2013 #26

Interesting paragraph from the article. Laelth Feb 2013 #31

+1 HiPointDem Feb 2013 #32

Chiquola Mills, Honea Path, SC, 1934. . . DinahMoeHum Feb 2013 #33

Excellent essay. Thanks for this post. n/t Laelth Feb 2013 #34

Then maybe we over here on our side should consider the following: Volaris Feb 2013 #35

Not much has changed when you think about it, they're still using race as class divider SpartanDem Feb 2013 #36

It is like this guy is reading my university history papers Sen. Walter Sobchak Feb 2013 #37