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What would the US be like today had slavery never existed?

Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:07 am
Posted by southpawcock
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:07 am
I think about this from time to time.
Posted by sgallo3
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:07 am to
Wakanda
Posted by bad93ex
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:09 am to
Jackson, MS would be a nice city
Posted by Loup
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:09 am to
probably would have entered the industrial age a lot sooner. not as much reason to innovate if somebody else is doing all the hard labor for you.
Posted by ATrillionaire
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:09 am to
another circle jerk
Posted by touchdownjeebus
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:11 am to
Peaceful
Posted by BlackPot
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:13 am to
Way further ahead and way more peaceful. Eventually migration would have happened, but it would have been way later.
Posted by burger bearcat
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:14 am to
Better question is how would the descendants of the slaves be doing these days?

It should be mentioned, whether they were sold to American slaveowners or not, they still most certainly would have been slaves for someone. My understanding is the Arabs weren’t the friendliest of slaveowners. Neither were their African captors.

When the Europeans stopped taking slaves, the Africans kingdoms didnt know what to do with their slaves in their reserve as they didn’t have any use for thm. So they just sacrificed them all to their kings and gods.
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 8:16 am
Posted by Eurocat
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:14 am to
Our country would have a lot less of a groove.
Posted by NFLSU
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:14 am to
Pretty much the same.

They would just find another excuse that didn’t affect them.
Posted by soccerfüt
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:15 am to
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What would the US be like today had slavery never existed?
Hey ding-dong, when you ask “had slavery never existed” you do realize that there were lotsa white, brown, yellow and black slaves in history?

St Patrick was purported to have been a slave.

Plenty of white Europeans were slaves in the Roman Empire.

tl/dr:Focus your question to expose your true motive.
Posted by SuperSaint
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:16 am to
Posted by ATrillionaire
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:17 am to
Dude didn't even drink his coffee yet before he decided to pine his dissatisfaction with life.
Posted by Clames
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:18 am to
Much less fatiguing.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:28 am to
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I think about this from time to time.

Posted by LordSaintly
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:28 am to
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Eventually migration would have happened, but it would have been way later.


Yep. Blacks would be descendants of African immigrants instead of slaves. It would be a completely different population.
Posted by Chad504boy
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:31 am to
I guess they just would’ve had more Irish slaves that are not considered slaves
Posted by The Torch
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:32 am to
5' 10" 155 lb white dudes would still be kicking arse in the NFL.
Posted by Hester Carries
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:34 am to
Every culture has a self distrust button. I think liberal women and figs would have got us here eventually
Posted by 225Tyga
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:36 am to
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What would the US be like today had slavery never existed?


Less tense and divided
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