If you could eliminate one person from history...who would it be?

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214. Uhhh, what?

So all of those 'indentured servants' chopping sugar cane in Jamaica had it so much better than the slaves in the US south? How do you account then for the large number of rebellions they took part in, not to mention the large maroon communities there, which hardly existed in the continental US.

The idea that slavery was so much worse in the American south than in the Caribbean is pretty tough to defend. I'm pretty sure the opposite was true. It was quite possibly worse in the French and Spanish Caribbean colonies. But I find it hard to believe that British slavery was so much better in the Caribbean than it was in the US south. One of the reasons British slavery ended when it did was because of a large and violent uprising in Jamaica in 1831.