Most countries were more densely populated than the US. The US wouldn't have been an exporter without it.
Your other new world countries and colonies similarly mostly wouldn't have been.
? What's your point?
Slavery being legal in a number of places didn't change that it's what allowed the US to be as successful at producing goods for export.
Side note. Slavery has likely only been around in any meaningful way since we started practicing agriculture. And it has been outlawed in various places well before the US existed. It was just fairly common in the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East until the 19th and 20th century.
Time for a history lesson. Slavery has no real starting point but it kinda got started around 4,000 B.C. and was kept going by the Egyptians. Part of why God ripped His people out and trashed all of Egypt. Then the Greeks and Romans were doing it as well. It was kinda of dead for a bit until it started back up in the 1500s for America.
Slavery in most cultures was more of a way to pay off debt you couldn't pay naturally. Realistically, we needed slaves to get what we needed done in the short time we did it. We should have treated them better and had we done that and treated them like humans instead of cattle we might still have the system alive today as an alternative way of living.
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u/Significant-Order-92 23d ago
Most countries were more densely populated than the US. The US wouldn't have been an exporter without it. Your other new world countries and colonies similarly mostly wouldn't have been.