

One Scholar Priced the Unpaid Work of Slavery at $14.2 Trillion
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What Comes Next by What Comes Next
S1
Sep 24, 2026
00:35
Episode notes
Podcast show notes: One scholar put a price on the work that was never paid for, and the figure runs to fourteen point two trillion dollars in 2009 money. That is about twenty two trillion today. His count covers 1776 to 1860 only, so the colonial years and the war years sit outside it entirely. The full story is Episode 3, Part 1 of What Comes Next.
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