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[zeemike]

50. All that slave labor wealth went to the slave owners at the top.

same as now...and the slaves were producing the wealth from the LAND....cotton tobacco were cash crops sold to the world.

But I learned some history while looking for my ancestors who settled in central Illinois in the 1850s...and found an obscure book about a millionaire farmer...and he made his wealth from farming because he could raise grain crops and take it down to the river and sell it for Spanish silver cause there was no monetary policy at the time...and that grain went down the Mississippi and wound up in Europe...and that silver is what grew the towns around there...the merchants came in cause the farmers had the money.

Wealth is created by natural resources plus labor...and when it is shared with labor life is good and we prosper...those are the facts.