re: #82 mmmirele
I like what historian Edward Baptist did in his book āThe Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.ā He called the āplantationsā another nameāāslave labor campsā. I think thatās a perfectly fine and true name. (PS If youāve never read this book, highly, highly recommended. Yeah, itās economics, yeah it has charts, but you will understand so much about WHY slavery is a live issue, even down to today.)
In touring a S.C. Plantation, I learned that they kidnapped West African villagers and brought them to SC to cultivate rice. They werenāt unskilled labor, they were being exploited for their expertise in rice cultivation.