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Does The 1619 Project Have Anything To Teach Us?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The Accounting Error of the 1619 Project

Cotton was the United States' largest export greater than 50% in some years before the Civil War. Cotton production in exports accounted to less than 5% of US GDP in any given year. If you asked people in the mid-19th century what side capitalism was on in this debate over abolition versus slavery, the slave owners detested capitalism.

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