We should have picked our own cotton in the first place and turned those ships around.
yes. But it doesn’t matter because we just switched from slaves to low-wage illegals by the millions. No one ever votes on this crap. The merchants want it, and in any time period, the merchants spread around their cash. Robots would have worked, but we are just now getting to them. Ted Kennedy said he wasn’t going to change the European flavor of the U.S. when he expanded immigration in the 1960’s. Ha ha jokes on us