Why didn't we pick our own cotton?
>Fat
>Dumb
>Lazy
>American
Economics
>>73433481
Business owners are too cheap; the same problem we have today with outsourcing and immigration.
>Why hire a white man to pick cotton and pay him a wage when I can buy a slave and have him do it for free?
>Why hire an American citizen to do X when I can hire a Pajeet or a Paco to do it at half the salary?
We should have. If we abolished slavery in 1776 there would hardly be any darkies in this society.
>>73433737
Slaves were a one-time payment (I don't know if leasing was a thing back then), but I understand what you're getting at.
Nothing wrong with wanting to make a profit. The problem was that the government got cucked into releasing them all.
>>73433481
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>>73433481
Because your hand gets all cut up and shiet
That's why we invented machines to do that
>>73433481
White and Native slaves had a far easier time escaping their own slavery because, once they left, they could blend into the next township or village over.
>>73433481
Cotton and slavery was on its way out. It just took way too long and way too many man hours to be economical. But the invention of the Cotton gin made slavery economically viable and the south revolved around that one industry. Feeding the appetite of the British and Northern textile mills.
Its not a question of why we had to get slaves to pick cotton but rather the cotton and new technology made the traditional slavery possible again.
If the time between the two events had been longer we may have very well seen a system of feudal labor that involved rich white land owners and indentured white immigrant servants.
