Quote of the Day: Walter Williams on Slavery
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Reparations advocates make the foolish unchallenged pronouncement that the United States became rich on the backs of free black labor. That’s utter nonsense. Slavery has never had a very good record of producing wealth. Think about it. Slavery was all over the South. Buying into the reparations nonsense, you’d have to conclude that the antebellum South was rich and the slave-starved North was poor.
The truth of the matter is just the opposite. In fact, the poorest states and regions of our country were places where slavery flourished: Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia while the richest states and regions were those where slavery was absent: Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts.
For Professor Williams’ “Proclamation of Amnesty and Pardon Granted to All Persons of European Descent,” click here.
