The Importance of Slavery in a Free Market

Bob Greene: If the slavers of God captured black people, brought them across and then right when they're about to be auctioned, if all of a sudden they had a change of heart. Like, actually, what are we doing? This is wrong here. You folks, you're free to go. He says that would make the average person in the United States wealthier. Greene: What's less clear is if they had just stayed in Africa and weren't brought over, what would have happened. In reality, given that there were trade barriers and they weren't free, the governments were heavy-handed more so in Africa than in the U.S.