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JAMESBJOHNSON
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The History Channel is grilling up slavery mythology today.
They submit how slaves cost $1000 and planters routinely crippled them so they couldn't toil. Consider that thesis on its merits. A man spends $1000 (one million in modern money) and then ruins the investment with crippling physical abuse. Non sense. The slave must be fed, clothed, sheltered, and has no value for re-sale. This and the slave is prolly collateral for a loan.
Slaves were hanged for murder. Otherwise slaves were sold if their conduct was troublesome enough. My family owned sugar plantations south of Tampa, and that's where problem slaves went. If they escaped the Seminoles captured and enslaved them. So few ran off into the Everglades as life with the Seminoles wasn't a good career move. Plus plenty of blacks owned slaves, many free black women sold their children into slavery....plenty came South to sell their kids and return North with fat purses. The $500 sales price for a child was 4 years worth of income. So many black women pumped pups and made easy money.
They submit how slaves cost $1000 and planters routinely crippled them so they couldn't toil. Consider that thesis on its merits. A man spends $1000 (one million in modern money) and then ruins the investment with crippling physical abuse. Non sense. The slave must be fed, clothed, sheltered, and has no value for re-sale. This and the slave is prolly collateral for a loan.
Slaves were hanged for murder. Otherwise slaves were sold if their conduct was troublesome enough. My family owned sugar plantations south of Tampa, and that's where problem slaves went. If they escaped the Seminoles captured and enslaved them. So few ran off into the Everglades as life with the Seminoles wasn't a good career move. Plus plenty of blacks owned slaves, many free black women sold their children into slavery....plenty came South to sell their kids and return North with fat purses. The $500 sales price for a child was 4 years worth of income. So many black women pumped pups and made easy money.
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