Posted on 07/17/2019 5:17:34 AM PDT by NOBO2012
You’re the one who keeps following me around liar. Want me to go away? Simple. Stop following me around. Derp.
Post 8.
Fly away bird-man.
Stupid, obsessed, cowardly, liar. All you have to do, is stop following me around. Then I’ll stop responding. See how simple that is? I bet even you can manage it with just a modicum of self control.
Post 9 of you obsessing over me in this thread.
Bird-man craps on another WBTS thread LoL
Rocksinhishead shows his azz again.
Typical Democrat.
Its clear brojoe is a sad obsessed guy with no life.
First he follows me around. Then hurls insults. Then acts like the poor aggrieved victim when it gets dealt right back to him. Typical Leftists. Loves dishing it out. Absolutely can not take it.
Typical Democrat, FLT-bird accuses others of his own misdeeds, i.e., “obsessed” and “following around”.
Nobody would ever “follow” FLT-bird, but FLT-bird obviously follows some of us.
Huston shows, for example, that roughly half of American men were farmers, somewhat less in New England, more in the Midwest.
In States like Pennsylvania, 75% of farms were less than 100 acres and virtually none were over 500 acres.
But the Deep South was quite different.
There still 65% of farms were under 100 acres, but fully 85% of the land was owned by farmers with OVER 100 acres.
These were certainly plantations worked by slaves.
Huston also tells us that about 75% of small farmer's produce went for their own subsistence, not to market.
I think we can assume for large plantations, it was the reverse -- 75%+ to market, maybe 25% for subsistence.
These numbers give us the ability to calculate the percentage of cotton grown by slaves.
In 1860, white small-farmers owned 15% of total farmlands, on which they produced 75% subsistence food and 25% cash crops like cotton, so: 15% X 25% = ~4% of land went for cotton produced by white small-farms.
On larger plantations it was 85% X 75% = ~64% was plantation land planted in cotton.
Add 64% + 4% = 68% total for cash crops, of which white small-farmers produced ~6%.
In other words, virtually all cash-crop cotton was produced on larger plantations, by slaves.
Summary: about half of Southern white men were farmers, 65% of whom owned less that 100 acres, of which about 25% went for cash crops like cotton, or about 6% of all cotton produced.
The rest came from larger plantations worked by slaves.
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