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To: DiogenesLamp; M Kehoe; jmacusa
DiogenesLamp: "So much wrong with your false equivalencies that it's hardly worth the trouble to answer them."

Naw... that's not it.
The real truth is that so much of it is right, and explodes so many of your shameless lies, that you just can't risk addressing any of it, and you know it, don't you?

DiogenesLamp: "How many slaves did it take to grow and harvest wheat rather than Cotton?"

We don't have census numbers as to how many slaves were used in each economic activity -- i.e., cotton, wheat, tobacco, rice, sugar, manufacturing, railroads, construction, dock workers, household servants, etc.
But we can still make some estimates...

In 1860 there 3,951,000 total slaves.
Of those, 58% lived in the Deep South cotton states = 2,312,000.
A reasonable estimate is that 3/4 of those were used in cotton production = ~1.7 million.
Then outside the Deep South, where wheat, tobacco & other items (i.e., hemp) predominated, cotton was also grown, using perhaps 20% of the slave workforce, or roughly 300,000 out of 1.6 million.
Add together ~1,700,000 in the Deep South plus ~300,000 elsewhere = 2.000,000 = 51% of all 1860 slaves.
That means roughly half of US slaves in 1860 did not work in cotton, and so would not fall under your alleged "no cotton = no slaves" rule.

239 posted on 10/05/2021 11:16:55 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: BroJoeK
We don't have census numbers as to how many slaves were used in each economic activity -- i.e., cotton, wheat, tobacco, rice, sugar, manufacturing, railroads, construction, dock workers, household servants, etc. But we can still make some estimates...

There are some men whom, if you ask them the time, will proceed to tell you how to build a clock.

You didn't answer the question. I know almost nothing about growing wheat or cotton, but I do know that wheat is far less labor intensive than cotton.

Cotton requires pickers, but wheat is harvested by being cut and threshed. I think machines to harvest wheat were created long before machines to harvest cotton.

A quick internet search tells me 1835 was the year they had a harvesting/threshing machine, and so it took very few slaves to grow and harvest wheat as compared with cotton.

So now what was the difference in value between a cotton crop and a wheat crop?

249 posted on 10/05/2021 1:59:01 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to<i> no other sovereignty.")
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