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Benton D Struckcheon

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4. Forgot one very important detail

Reply to GeoWilliam750 (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 07:37 PM

Mar 2013

There were, back in slave days, more blacks than whites, and this contributed to the violence with which slavery was maintained in South Carolina. They grew rice and indigo in those swamps; cotton was not king in that state. It was highly labor-intensive, so you needed a lot of slaves.
Not sure if that has anything to do with what you're talking about, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.

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