City Journal: The Truth About Slavery and America
The institution was neither unique to the United States nor central to its growth and prosperity. Slavery in the antebellum South was a brutal system that enriched individual planters but did not drive broad-based prosperity in the United States, contrary to the claims of writers such as Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Read the whole thing. Refreshing to see this in City Journal. A very good article and well worth reading.
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