Absolute nonsense. Why didn’t they build up Africa then? And art? Ok yeah Van Gogh, Picasso, Michelangelo etc. All European. I could go on. BTW Also Merely doing manual field labor or household chores isn't "building" a country. And the North barely had any slavery, and they've almost always been more developed than the slavery-practicing South. Slavery perpetuated an archaic and inferior agrarian socioeconomic system which greatly delayed the industrialization of the South - which is the main reason why they lost the Civil War and are still worse off than the rest of the country to this day. And btw country music was invented by a white dude. Tell me why don’t you refute this, Salos?