• A_A@lemmy.world
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    Blacks nations, like any other, developed much stronger skills when they defeated oppression than when subjected to slavery.

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      Exactly. Business leaders at the time had cried that their companies and the strength of the US as a whole would fall without the manpower of slavery. Then the exact opposite happened, and industrial creativity and efficiency exploded. Rich men always seem to get it wrong