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Manhattan Institute Issues Commentary to Wall Street Journal: Economics of Slavery
June 19, 2025
NEW YORK, June 19 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary on June 17, 2025, to the Wall Street Journal:

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The Economics of Slavery

By Roland G. Fryer, Jr.

Probing the incentives and institutions that kept slavery alive can help us value what freedom means.

Juneteenth marks emancipation, yet debate still rages over how to teach slavery, why it arose and persisted, and what place it holds in Ameri . . .

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