Regardless, you are straw-manning. Dedicatedly. I have literally not once made any claims about the amounts of wealth generated.
How can something be the backbone of any economy if it isn’t making the majority of wealth generated? You inherently are making those claims. You can’t just say something is the backbone of the economy, then back off when someone points out gdp figures for slavery. XD
And it’s been only you who’s pontificated on the artificiality of that wealth and on who got what share of that wealth.
You’re on one hand arguing that slaves helped build the US and that it was the backbone of the economy, yet at the same time getting mad with me for saying the wealth gained was artificial and gained by the few.
without which they’d’ve had to find something else or suffer economic ruin.
Except again that provably isn’t true either, because we saw the GDP effects after the civil war.
But, to thus argue now that because they were considered then to be nonhuman capital, they didn’t build anything is to argue now to continue to view slaves as not human
No it isn’t. Its to say where the wealth was tied up, why, and why it was quickly destroyed. When you look at actual GDI figures, the contribution of slavery was minimal and the countries economy accelerated long afterwards. Slaves did not make this country rich, they never built this country.