When Kansas was petitioning for entry into the Union the South wanted it to be a slave state. Kansas is not exactly cotton growing country nor is it suited for growing sugar cane. It is a great place to grow wheat and other grains. Grains that would make bread and alcohol like gin and whisky. Slaves would have been used for planting and harvesting that grain. Jeez dude, the Asbergers aside don't you ever get tired of looking stupid?
When Kansas was petitioning for entry into the Union the South wanted it to be a slave state. Kansas is not exactly cotton growing country nor is it suited for growing sugar cane. It is a great place to grow wheat and other grains. Grains that would make bread and alcohol like gin and whisky. Washington produced Whiskey and I would suppose he used his slaves to do it, yet if you read Washington's discussion of slavery you get the impression that his was an enterprise that could barely keep itself in profit, and he devoted some time to discussing his efforts at finding things sufficiently profitable to cover his costs of keeping them.
Slaves would have been used for planting and harvesting that grain.
A practical cotton harvesting machine might have been 80 years in the future, but the grain planting/harvesting machinery was already developed at this time.
Jeez dude, the Asbergers aside don't you ever get tired of looking stupid?
If it doesn't bother you, why should it bother me?