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To: DiogenesLamp

Wrong.

Workers were paid a small pittance for each item they produced. No Mississippi cotton plantation slave was paid a cent for the cotton he produced. In addition, the textile worker had the option of quitting and moving on. Something a Mississippi field slave could only dream of.


138 posted on 04/05/2024 5:08:29 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe
Wrong. Workers were paid a small pittance for each item they produced. No Mississippi cotton plantation slave was paid a cent for the cotton he produced. In addition, the textile worker had the option of quitting and moving on. Something a Mississippi field slave could only dream of.

You are telling me that I am "Wrong" about textile mills in the North being dependent upon slaves?

I think you miss my meaning. Without the slaves producing cotton, the textile mills in the North cannot produce fabric. The mills are literally dependent upon the cotton the slaves produced.

I wasn't making any reference to their workers, I was making reference to the origins of their raw material.

157 posted on 04/06/2024 1:34:02 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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