S4 E3: The Cotton Empire
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The Slavery Market in the United States
Cotton production in the us. Multiplies 500 fold, from four million pounds a year to two billion. The labor of enslaved black people makes it all possible. Even if white america is entirely ungrateful, and always will be, the market of the nineteenth century does grasp the value of enslaved workers.
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