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In reply to the discussion: Far Too Many Businesses Would Embrace Slavery [View all]keithbvadu2
(39,165 posts)9. Actually the slave owners found that sharecropping was a better deal for them.
Actually the slave owners found that sharecropping was a better deal for them. As a slave owner, you were responsible for housing, feeding, and their general upkeep.
Sharecroppers can be kept in your perpetual debt and servitude. A form of slavery with less corporate responsibility. Same with company towns and the company store.
Remember Burl Ives in the Roots series? Owning land is the real wealth. Always has been. Always will be.
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marble falls
Oct 2021
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Oct 2021
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Oct 2021
#7
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OMGWTF
Oct 2021
#34
That's what they did after the Civil War and it was constitutional under the 13th Amendment.
marie999
Oct 2021
#49
Actually the slave owners found that sharecropping was a better deal for them.
keithbvadu2
Oct 2021
#9
The fact that we need child labor laws tell you all you need to know about the Capitalism system
spike jones
Oct 2021
#16
Is there any doubt that low paid workers especially undocumented immigrants are the slave class.
Pepsidog
Oct 2021
#37
Slavery would suck for some of them, because they'd have to provide adequate food and health care ..
dawg
Oct 2021
#47
I have long been of the opinion that what finally put the kibosh on formal slavery in America
misanthrope
Oct 2021
#58