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Yavin4

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9. Who would use paid labor when there's slavery?

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Mon Sep 14, 2020, 05:29 PM

Sep 2020

They wouldn't be getting anything at all. They would be subsistence farmers living in the mountains.

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Don't Tell Black People... [View all] sheshe2 Sep 2020 OP

K&R Solly Mack Sep 2020 #1

I didnt want to believe the main reason trumpers are mad is Eliot Rosewater Sep 2020 #2

Brats ... GeorgeGist Sep 2020 #3

Good point...nt Wounded Bear Sep 2020 #4

None of their broke asses would owned anyone. They'd have been working... brush Sep 2020 #5

Slavery meant that these fuckdribbles wouldn't be on the bottom of the socioeconomic Aristus Sep 2020 #8

There are many employed at minimum wage Backseat Driver Sep 2020 #36

Except that slaves were valuable. So the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs went to these guys. catrose Sep 2020 #42

Whatever slaves' monetary value, slaveowners didn't seem to have any problem Aristus Sep 2020 #46

Not a bit. catrose Sep 2020 #49

+1, but on just economy ladder alone they were at the bottom cause slavery suppressed wages. Slaves uponit7771 Sep 2020 #55

Who would use paid labor when there's slavery? Yavin4 Sep 2020 #9

Overseers and such, but you're right. Many would've been broke ass... brush Sep 2020 #13

Subsistence farmers would be wiped out by any number of environmental disasters Yavin4 Sep 2020 #17

+1 uponit7771 Sep 2020 #56

It most certainly was about labor for cotton - that went to Northern factories largely ... marble falls Sep 2020 #27

Owning another human being is an investment that needs to be kept up: food, clothing, shelter... Hekate Sep 2020 #28

I think that's now called living off-grid on a homestead, and this trendy living isn't really as Backseat Driver Sep 2020 #33

Maybe...but they would have the shotgun ashredux Sep 2020 #14

"Do you know how much a slave cost back then?" betsuni Sep 2020 #35

...and the men who owned slaves would have called them trash to their faces Warpy Sep 2020 #61

Excellent, Ma'am The Magistrate Sep 2020 #6

Great post malaise Sep 2020 #7

I just roll my eyes MustLoveBeagles Sep 2020 #10

Good stuff: Hows mom doing? marble falls Sep 2020 #11

She turned 94 in July. sheshe2 Sep 2020 #21

Holy-moly! Good for her. Even as important - I hope you're doing well, too! marble falls Sep 2020 #25

Or losing their war. George II Sep 2020 #12

POW!!! llashram Sep 2020 #15

Who would want to work for these super spreading ignoramuses even with pay? Illumination Sep 2020 #16

That is mainly what it's about for most Trump supporters Roc2020 Sep 2020 #18

55 years ago this October this "damn yankee" saw my first rebel flag. 51 years this October......... usaf-vet Sep 2020 #19

K&R. nt iluvtennis Sep 2020 #20

So... if they're flying their flag upside down Harker Sep 2020 #22

This is so perfect KT2000 Sep 2020 #23

If they don't like Black folks, safeinOhio Sep 2020 #24

These people ain't seen a brown-skinned man since their grandparents bought one Tarc Sep 2020 #26

Excellent post, She Hekate Sep 2020 #29

Right On!!! Aviation91 Sep 2020 #30

KNR niyad Sep 2020 #31

DAMN ! Bullseye ! liberalla Sep 2020 #32

I bet 100% of the people in that photo TNNurse Sep 2020 #34

K&R smirkymonkey Sep 2020 #37

Best of all: 98% of Antebellum-era White folks owned NO slaves sandensea Sep 2020 #38

" Slaves were, after all, property - and had to be cared for accordingly." sheshe2 Sep 2020 #48

THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 ... then they went and fought so rich people can keep their property !! That's uponit7771 Sep 2020 #57

Thanks. History does tend to repeat itself, doesn't it. sandensea Sep 2020 #58

👍 uponit7771 Sep 2020 #59

I love this post. Wish I could come up with zingers like that. NoRoadUntravelled Sep 2020 #39

OMG Yes. The "lost cause" was lost and they need to get over it. n/t Beartracks Sep 2020 #40

Oh Snap! lunatica Sep 2020 #41

Unintended consequences... AmyStrange Sep 2020 #43

And slavery did not end with the Emancipation Proclamation. sheshe2 Sep 2020 #47

Exactly! n/t AmyStrange Sep 2020 #50

That is spot on! Catherine Vincent Sep 2020 #44

K&R Blue Owl Sep 2020 #45

SMACK DOWN! W000t! electric_blue68 Sep 2020 #51

True. Story. N/T angrychair Sep 2020 #52

LOL! Nitram Sep 2020 #53

K & R SunSeeker Sep 2020 #54

BOOM!!!!!!!! calimary Sep 2020 #60