Common historical fallacies: Difference between revisions
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**** just as an office building has a value but its economic output is measured not by its value but by the sum of its rents | **** just as an office building has a value but its economic output is measured not by its value but by the sum of its rents | ||
==== logical fallacy 3: black population growth for slavery ==== | ==== logical fallacy 3: black population growth for about slavery ==== | ||
* according to the decennial Census count: | * according to the decennial Census count: | ||
** only in the 1810 Census count did black population growth exceed that of non-black population growth | ** only in the 1810 Census count did black population growth ''under slavery'' exceed that of non-black population growth | ||
*** this growth coincided with the introduction of the cotton gin and rapid expansion of slavery across the deep South | *** this growth coincided with the introduction of the cotton gin and rapid expansion of slavery across the deep South | ||
* notably, black population growth has exceeded non-blacks following emancipation and desegregation | * notably, black population growth has exceeded non-blacks following emancipation and desegregation | ||
** Census counts marking higher black population growth in '''bold''' | ** equally notable, | ||
* <u>Conclusions</u>: | |||
** while slave and free black population grew significantly under slavery, emancipation and desegregation led to higher relative population growth for blacks | |||
** segregation inhibited black population growth, thus racial discrimination is not conducive of population growth (and we can infer from that economic activity) | |||
click on EXPAND to view chart of comparative population growth 1790-1990: | |||
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* Census counts marking higher black population growth are in '''bold''' | |||
** note that the lowest population growth counts occur following periods of war or during the Depression (1870, 1920, 1940) | |||
** the data also show that lower population growth for blacks occurred following segregation | |||
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=== late 1700s to early 1800s manumission === | === late 1700s to early 1800s manumission === | ||