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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...avery-threatens-reignite-racial-tensions.html
Nobody knows duh trubble I seed, nobody knows my sorrow.
The core problem with slave memoirs is: Slaves were expensive to buy and expensive to keep.
A $1000 slave cost about 8 times the prevailing wage back then. Plus you hadda take care of them for the 8 years it took to recoup the initial cost. And if the cotton crop was ruined slaves still hadda eat. Beating slaves was no more sane than beating your car or lawn mower or bulldozer. They cant work if theyre hurt or damaged. Most of these slave brutality tales are pretend.
Now! Slaves were beaten! No question about it.
If a slave raped or committed arson or killed animals or maimed another slave, they were beaten. Or sold. Or transported to a sugarcane plantation where Indians, alligators, and diseases were fatal.
Whats more interesting than the bullshit memoirs is the reality of Lincolns treatment of slaves. He had the Union cavalry kill them along with other livestock, or he loaded them on ships for sale in Central America or he forced them to labor for the army (they couldn't quit).
Nobody knows duh trubble I seed, nobody knows my sorrow.
The core problem with slave memoirs is: Slaves were expensive to buy and expensive to keep.
A $1000 slave cost about 8 times the prevailing wage back then. Plus you hadda take care of them for the 8 years it took to recoup the initial cost. And if the cotton crop was ruined slaves still hadda eat. Beating slaves was no more sane than beating your car or lawn mower or bulldozer. They cant work if theyre hurt or damaged. Most of these slave brutality tales are pretend.
Now! Slaves were beaten! No question about it.
If a slave raped or committed arson or killed animals or maimed another slave, they were beaten. Or sold. Or transported to a sugarcane plantation where Indians, alligators, and diseases were fatal.
Whats more interesting than the bullshit memoirs is the reality of Lincolns treatment of slaves. He had the Union cavalry kill them along with other livestock, or he loaded them on ships for sale in Central America or he forced them to labor for the army (they couldn't quit).