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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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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; Jamestown1630; Red Badger

True.
Cotton
Corn
Sugarcane
Tobacco
Rice
Indigo
Turpentine
and many others.
But “cotton” somehow became a “trigger word”.


39 posted on 12/23/2024 1:17:08 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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