We should have picked our own damned cotton.
...I have been saying this every opportunity I get...but better yet, pay some migrant workers a nominal wage to do the work, for a contracted period of time...
...but to import Stone Age cultures, as chattel slaves...who couldn’t see a ‘permanent underclass’ coming out of that...
A great historian I admired once said that all great civilizations imported its lower working classes. Much to their detriment.
America has quit importing Negroes. Now we import Mexicans.
“who couldn’t see a ‘permanent underclass’ coming out of that...”
Umm, wasn’t that the point of importing slaves? I think that the slavers had every intention of always owning slaves, therefore their intent was to have a permanent underclass.....