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To: Red Badger

Cotton isn’t the only thing slaves picked...


3 posted on 12/23/2024 11:42:41 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

True, corn, tobacco and all sorts of other crops, but Cotton Was King............


13 posted on 12/23/2024 11:47:52 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Jamestown1630
No, it wasn't.

And if you were a tobacco slave you knew it could be worse, you could be picking cotton. And if you were a cotton slave you knew it could be worse, it could be rice.

31 posted on 12/23/2024 12:16:50 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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