207: Building A Democratic Majority with Simon Rosenberg
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
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The Economics of Slavery
The single most valuable commodity in the United States in 1860 was not railroads, it was human beings. Some small percentage of slaves were able to parlay skills that they learned during slavery to make some money when it ended. "I don't think it's even in the top 5,000 things that you could learn about slavery," he says.
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