What a better world this would be if the south would have picked their own dam cotton!
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Most countries’ governments bought the legally owned slaves as a part of forced abolition instead of stealing them.
Germ Theory hadn't been discovered yet. Therefore, what a better world this would be if mosquitos never existed! Had not the South been - and is - the playground of the bloodsuckers, anybody could have come over to help with the cotton and sugar cane. The older societies would not yield their population.
What we have to be thankful for is that the Black Plague never made it to our shores in times of slavery. It could have, 200 years after its outbreak, but it didn't. I guess fleas didn't survive the Atlantic Crossing.