[Clemenza]

Yep. As a result, many southern states (South Carolina and Mississippi come to mind) had black majority populations up until the great migration. It seems to me that the so called "elites" wanted cheap nonwhite labor without the complexity that a multiracial society brings.

Ben Franklin, of all people, wrote about this very development.

[wardaddy]

just as an historical note it may broaden your horizons to bone up on Northern slave use and role as headmasters of the actual trade

as well as European

from way back, even before New World applications

course the Cotton Gin, invented by a Yankee of all folks did make it more of a southern institution

frankly, modern blacks have more reason to decry Jim Crow than slavery

long term slavery was a boon to the descendants.

average black in the US today even those on the dole is far better off than their counterpart in West Africa.

at least from what I've seen in 50 years of observing black culture in the South, Urban North, Caribbean, Latin America and West Africa

for that matter, womyn....who bitch almost as much have never had it so good as here either.