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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
that's pretty interesting, i appreciate the return
though through skimming google posts it seems it probably had more to do with geopolitics and england/spain more than anything else.
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Sure the conquest of America was driven by that rivalry, but the slave trade was very much a product of the "necessity" of bringing in labor that could deal with malaria and other tropical and sub-tropical diseases. It may not have been the original cause, but I doubt slavery would have reached the levels it did without that.