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The 1619 Project Deserves Consideration and Criticism

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Is Slavery a Myth?

Slavery does heighten inequality to extreme proportions. In slavery, as an economic system, it can be very profitable for a small number of people. Most of the people at the top the giant plantations that ist with e thousands of people enslaved on them,. and a single, very wealthy family at the top of the food chain. The slave owners themselves are also the poitical class of those states. It's almost like a feudal economyis a throw back to a feudal system, not a vibrant modern capitalism.

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