Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: ek_hornbeck
Has it occurred to you that slaves could be used to do things other than pick cotton?

Such as? What would you do with them in Kansas, Nebraska or New Mexico? According to this article, there were only 12 slaves in New Mexico.

There were millions in the Southern states. It seems to me that if they were valuable in exploiting the west, they would have had more that 12 in all of New Mexico territory when it happened to look like this.


137 posted on 05/03/2019 1:31:10 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies ]


To: DiogenesLamp
In South America, slaves were used for work in mines - New Mexico territories would apply here. You use Kansas and Nebraska as examples - surely they would have been able to find uses for slaves tilling, plowing, and harvesting corn and wheat fields there had there been a push for slavery. The fact that slaves were not used for didn't reflects politics more than economic need.

Ignoring moral and political aspects, from an economic standpoint slavery is simply indentured labor. An indentured worker could in principle do any work that a free contract worker does.

405 posted on 05/04/2019 3:25:59 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 137 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson