re: #239 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

You keep saying that, but it doesn’t get truer as you say it. In fact, tobacco, rice and cotton cultivation (also sugar) are labor intensive. Without some kind of imported labor, whether European or not, they couldn’t have existed, and indentured Europeans worked side by side with Indian slaver before Africans mostly replaced them.

(Also, just by the by, the enslaving of Indians in the south continued right up to the Emancipation Proclamation.)

I understand the need for imported labor. but indentured servants are being paid and are not the property of the landowner. that was never enough: they needed to force people to do the hardest work