[JoeMusashi]

Originally Posted by goat314

The foundation of America's economy was built on slave labor not immigration. Mass immigration from Europe and elsewhere came primarily after America had already become a prosperous slave colony.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/...edward-baptist

You still need actual immigrants to bring capital and numbers to develop a plantation economy. Slavery couldn't have thrived or existed in this country without immigrants or pioneering settlers. It wasn't like everyone in the country was a slave or slaveowner either, even in the Antebellum South.