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White House says slavery is being taught wrong, should not be so negative (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 6 days ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 81 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Slavery is negative for a reason.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are you forgetting how good it was for all those slave owners though? They liked it a whole lot.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Most slave owners in the US South weren't doing all that well. They typically had large debts and widely variable cashflow (not that they deserved sympathy for that). The ones who really made big money on slavery were the slave traders (and their investors) and the banks.