Martin argues that this country was built on the backs of our ancestors; he also argues that America 's wealth came from the cotton that slaves had to kill themselves to pick, the wealth came from the free labor that African Americans were forced into. America did not get its boost from the "thoughtful whites", it came from the labor of our people. …show more content…
Spencer attempts to justify slavery by saying that Europeans looked at it as a business model, a buisness model that any smart white man could have thought of. But in doing so he contradicts himself by saying that he dislikes the plan and would 've rejected every aspect of slavery, and this comes to point of why give America credit in the first place if what Europeans did were socially and morally wrong? I don 't understand why he would first say that America was smart for choosing to do what they did but then say he did not like the plan and would have changed it. Spencer then says that Europeans could have chosen another way to do what they did, but the point of the conversation is not to point out what America could have done it is, in fact, to discuss what America did in fact do; and the fact that it could not have been done without the free labor of African