Was America built on the backs of slaves?

It was built on the ground.

Another downvote for alters

My own, I would have picked

This is gonna be a fun one.

Just FYI, for a long time, there were more white indentured servants than black slaves.

Furthermore there were 3,000 black slave owners that owned over 20,000 slaves at the start of the civil war.

America became the powerhouse it did by the incredible innovative minds she had in the 19th and 20th centuries and Europe being fricking moronic and trying to burn itself to the ground once every fifty or so years.

Yes, without cotton America would never have been the country it is today

On the backs of slaves and the brains of the white man

I’m told every white person owned slaves and every black person was a slave. I’m also told nothing would have been built without black slaves because not a single white person had to lift a finger to do anything on account of all the slaves. That’s why every white person is guilty, because they are guaranteed to have a slave owning ancestor and they haven’t done anything but live on decades old wealth.

From what I'm reading, 12.6% of the US population as of 1860 were slaves.

I find it hard to believe that 12.6% of the population did all of the work, while the the other 87.4% sat back and laughed them while sipping iced tea.

What slave we talking about the Irish, African, or Indians not the dot kind.

America was built by a lack of bureaucracy and few rules that let us get shite done.

So what if someone liberated the losers of tribal warfare and relocated them. It’s germans.

Hell even the American Japs were thrown in prison for years during WWWII just for being jap looking.

You don’t see them wailing and gnashing their teeth over the past.

Get over it. Move on and make the best of it you can. Good luck.