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2024-01-19 15:53:12 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 168B8CAE78373CF047364CB1F9C1933782964791BF5484EB5075D3F1FFA6DD10
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The Atlantic Slave Trade made extremely large contributors to the foundations America is built on, being responsible for the construction of major infrastructure across the country. It is unwise to dismiss slave labor as "literally just [picking] cotton for jews" https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709818 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-workers-low-wages-exploited https://www.jstor.org/stable/1.1086/675300 https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2021/06/convict-leasing-system/
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