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Slavery was important to the US economy. According to this source the increase in output per enslaved worker was responsible for roughly a fifth of the growth in commodity output per capita for the United States https://equitablegrowth.org/new-research-shows-slaverys-central-role-in-u-s-economic-growth-leading-up-to-the-civil-war/#:~:text=The%20estimates%20based%20on%20this,18.7%20percent%20and%2024.3%20percent.
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