We planted, suckered, cut, hung, and handed off tobacco until the late ‘70’s and never once used a slave...
Your statement is false...
In what way?
Don’t bother
Forget slavery
Go to the Mississippi delta
95% of blacks just sit around
Or move to Jackson or Memphis or Little Rock ....and we see how that’s turned out
Mechanization surely disemployed Delta blacks in my lifetime
I saw blacks and Mexican migrant workers pick cotton as a kid on small farms fancy staple bolls
Now...most delta land is leased to Agri business
You get 200 an acre for productive land around Indianola and Yazoo city’s where I have kin with large tracks
A five thousand acre plantation is a million a year mailbox money
Hard to beat that....
But only a few skilled blacks are needed
It’s pitiful really...
I don’t have any answers there....most of the delta except parts of Warren and Washington and Cohoma counties ...maybe some around Holmes and Yazoo too ....was settled post civil war and these families have been there since...5 or 6 generations ....Holmes county unemployment is four times national average
Slavery ended in one or two generations after it ended here worldwide except Arab pockets
Nuff said that silly argument