Gee, I wonder if all of those years ago that these people would have wanted to stop Eli Whitney or John Deere or Cyrus McCormick as to keep all of those slaves busy back then.
Gee, “I wonder if all of those years ago that these people would have wanted to stop Eli Whitney or John Deere or Cyrus McCormick as to keep all of those slaves busy back then.”
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Nice response. Personally I would add the mechanized cotton picker into the mix. International Harvester’s intoduction of this in 1941 (or was is 1943?) carpet-bombed a good deal of existing social structure at the time. IH claimed one picker supplanted 10 manual workers. A real world expert I heard speak about this two years ago opined it was closed to 30.