Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20210301:06:04:00
Wives. most of those people never saw those folk again. that's about as dehumanizing as you can get. >> the core of the american economy was rural. it was agrarian. it was in the south, and the core of that economy enslaved africans. >> in the 1860 census, slaves as property were worth $3.8 billion. that's more than $100 billion today. more than all the banks, railroads, and factories put together. >> and let's remember, people in the north benefit from the cotton that is grown in the south. new york city was the banking center. an awful lot of banks lent money to southern plantation owners. s...