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2024-08-18 16:17:50 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: E474418068118D1B504F3391BD91D63923319DC8FD61504A7F1A6E7340FCD911
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As stated by this article, it's said that by 1860, around 4 million enslaved people produced over 60% of the economic activity in the US, helping the country become the second biggest industrial power in the world at that time. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014498323000463#:~:text=Robert%20E.,of%20GNP%20in%201859%2F60.&text=This%20share%20was%20not%20over%20one%2Dhalf%20of%20GNP. https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/16/20806069/slavery-economy-capitalism-violence-cotton-edward-baptist
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