re: #317 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Don’t forget, you still have to feed and house them well enough that they remain healthy enough to work. Add to that the built-in inefficiency of slave labor (“so what’s in it for me?”) and the difference may not be so great. Gilded Age industrialists amassed enormous fortunes too.

I know there were a few southerners who tried other “models” than the standard plantation slavery, it would be interesting to find out how they worked out.

No need to wonder; just look at tenant farmers. A big part of KKK activities in the 1920s and 1930s was to prevent the tenants from either organizing or fleeing north.