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To: Georgia Girl 2
Yes and no. Many of the more enlightened slave owners put them to work as blacksmiths and even machinists, a trend which accelerated during the war as the white men march off to fight in the Confederate Army.

Even though he was a mere boy at the time, Booker T. Washington makes this and some other very interesting observations in his autobiography Up From Slavery, an incredibly good read even 130 odd years later.

90 posted on 10/13/2014 10:09:06 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman

Yes but would you want slaves producing your Chevy Silverado or your laptop? Or your pharmaceutical drugs? I don’t think you would want them on the factory jobs and that was the Industrial Revolution.

Plus as farming mechanized you needed less labor to do the same work and is was inherently cheaper to hire people or with machines the family could handle the work and just use seasonal labor.


92 posted on 10/13/2014 10:17:53 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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