Black labor was extensively and unjustly used for building up the wealth and prosperity of whites from the 1600s to at least the 1960s (i.e., the slavery and Jim Crow segregation periods).

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During the slavery period, which lasted from the 1600s until 1865, and the Jim Crow era, which enforced racial segregation laws until the 1960s, black labor was exploited to build the wealth and prosperity of white individuals and communities without fair compensation or rights, reflecting systemic racial injustice and economic exploitation.

Black Labor Was Extensively and Unjustly Used for Building Up