Picking cotton is building a country?
And if he or they all want to play blacks and Indians against whites sthu and make your move.
Or go the...away
The slave based economy of the Antebellum South was obviously destroyed in the Civil War, so this notion that one particular ethnic group "built the country" is ludicrous.
Picking cotton was not “building America”
Turning the crank on the cotton gin that made the harvest of cotton a much more valuable industrial product probably did more to EXTEND the servitude known as “picking cotton” for many more years.
Few people pick cotton by hand any more. Rather, the process has be mechanized by use of specialized self-propelled machinery that plucks the ripened boll off the now-dead cotton plant, and catches it in a large basket on the back of the machine, which is dumped after a full load is accumulated, and transported to the local ginning mill, for processing into fiber and cottonseed. The fiber is sent elsewhere to be spun into cotton thread, from which it is woven into various grades of cotton fabric. The cottonseed is run through a cracking mill, and an expellor/solvent process, in which the oil in the seed is extracted and used in making foodstuffs, with the remaining meal ground into cattle feed.
Cotton is a big segment of agricultural production, but it was not made that way by the back-breaking trudge on foot though fields dragging a sack. It was by the mechanization and expanding scientific culture of cotton.