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What mechanization would replace the cooks, maids, butlers, grooms, gardeners, and so forth?

A paycheck. These jobs here are why I don't understand your belief that slavery was a benefit to all white southernor's. Slavery deprived poor whites of these menial jobs, along with bricklayer,carpenter and other jobs that slaves did. This is why I have no belief that the average soldier fought to perpetuate slavery. Your one car in the family aiding all in the family doesn't apply here. Sorry, I know I have drifted off the subject and on to one from threads gone by.

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A paycheck. These jobs here are why I don't understand your belief that slavery was a benefit to all white southernor's. Slavery deprived poor whites of these menial jobs, along with bricklayer,carpenter and other jobs that slaves did.

I'm not aware that there was such a hue and cry from poor southern whites to do the work that slaves were doing before slavery ended. Can you point me to somewhere that details the plight of the poor white cottonpicker in 1850? Or the southern maiden who yearned for a job as a plantation cook but was kept out because of discrimination? Work done by blacks in the south carried a stigma for decades afterwards. Whites weren't interested in competing with blacks for jobs as maids or cooks or field hands and we all know it.