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

I've read about this a good bit back in my day.

Slavery doesn't exist in America so indentured servants come from Northern, Southern, and Eastern Europe. Also, slavery still exists in the Caribbean and Latin America, so along the way you still will get immigrants that come into the US.

The idea that the US would be a white mecca is false.

There's also writings about how music would be different. Rock and roll, blues, jazz, probably wouldn't come to be.

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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.

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And without there would be no pyramids, nor Exodus, and old money wouldn't operate the same.

As for here (without slavery) : We would have a more obvious class orientation and less division by mere color.

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

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We would be eating almond butter and jelly sandwiches.

Without slavery there's a good chance that what we know as the United States would be more like Canada and Australia - independent but still a part of the British realm, and the independence would have come much later.

Without slavery the cotton/rice/indigo economy of the southern colonies doesn't develop into anything near what it was. Without that economic engine the southernmost colonies may not have been willing to declare independence. If they had balked, do the northern colonies still declare? What does the war look like? Does the south become a haven for northern loyalists?

We wouldn’t be playing songs like “*itch I’m from La” prior to kick off.

the median size of defensive ends would be a lot smaller.

We would not be as good in sports and our music would be boring

A Whiter Shade of Pale

Our medal count in the summer Olympics takes a dive.