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>I'd rather pick my own damn cotton,
You assume that you'd be sitting on the veranda sipping mint julups while you watch the slaves toil. But the reality is that slavery then was the same as infinite jeets is in our own time--a few wealthy jews importing brown labor to depress wages of the white working class, bankrupt farmers, steal their land, and reduce the native stock to the status of slaves in their own land.