Professor Michael Munger reflects on slavery in America and ignore the savagery lands of the slave

Ed West
   Professor Michael Munger was on Russ Roberts podcast talking about the American institution of slavery in a hour long discussion on the predicament of slave owners in early America. Professor Munger was elaborate on the fear of revenge of the slaves and how rthis caused the continuation of slavery as other industrializing empires and countries were getting rid of their part in the global slave trade. Munger and Roberts argued the morale value of the South and how the South justified slavery as essential for any economy to develop in the Southern part of the nation based on agricultural global trade power. The increasing value of the save after European empires had quit the institution but relied on their cheap labor overseas empire to continue churning out the profit for the empire. The United States didn't have this luxury and increasingly relied on the melting pot immigration to serve

this need in the North and Slavery expanding in the South for this country to grow as a rival power.
This growth was desperately needed to able to stand up to menacing European empires with territory still in north American on our borders. Michal Munger and Russ Roberts said nothing of this importance and reasoning for the lengthen of slavery on North American soil. The morality of slave owners will always be question by future generations for justification for slavery but again the barbarity of African then is not discussed by these two men and often gets overlooked by the world. Africa was a tribal genocidal mass killing fields then as it sometimes occurs today and Munger and Robert's ponder the missionaries motivations back in the day as they spread to Africa. Both of them say how appalling slavery was yet the institution of slavery as existed in the South was more benevolent than the forced labor of the British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese empires that were colonizing most of the planet. In an alternative view I would be willing to say Americas slavery woud not have been bad than say a Zulu, Mahidist, Somalian, Javanese, or Korean empire had these third-world nations and tribes grown to empire.  Had Africans had global empires back in the 1830's they would obviously had their own form of slavery as existed n Africa and elsewhere. In a agricultural base society a nation can only be powerful through a serf or slave system and without a powerful America which was created on part through slavery, humanity would be slaves under various empires of today not excluding a Japanese and German empire whose own forced labor was well known and much more brutal than an Americana system where most Southerners considered the slave as family.