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Obviously bullshit since the US has no slavery and became a world empire 100 years after abolishing slavery.


> The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_...


pre-Industrial revolution .. miraculously, formal slavery was disbanded widely only after industrial production and agricultural labor was industrialized.. no?




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