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Common historical fallacies: Difference between revisions
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*** but not a measurement of economic output | *** but not a measurement of economic output | ||
**** 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 ==== | |||
* according to the decennial Census count: | |||
** only in the 1810 Census count did black population growth exceed that of non-black population growth under slavery | |||
*** 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: | |||
=== late 1700s to early 1800s manumission === | === late 1700s to early 1800s manumission === | ||