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Does The 1619 Project Have Anything To Teach Us?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The North Underdeveloped the South

Sally Kohn: The argument has been maintained that the northern economy boomed, did very well. She says if the south was so vital to it, then the north would have been wrecked too. Kohn: I think the north definitely underdeveloped the south and poor whites suffered from that. "It's evidence of slavery's impoverishing effect, not its wealth"

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