re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Don’t forget the reason that slavery was introduced in America: the original planters were too lazy to do the work themselves and too cheap to actually pay someone to do it. Plus the Native Americans they tried to force into labor would just run off into the wilderness and join other free Natives.

They needed to import people who were foreign to the region, less likely to r-u-n-n o-f-f-t and immediately identifiable as such.

I also learned when I toured an old South Carolina rice plantation that they kidnapped Africans to work as slave labor because they knew how to cultivate rice. The plantation owners were parasites, dependent on both the labor and knowledge of better people than they were.