15 Feb 2023 9:13 am
Harsh reality's.Vegas » 14 Feb 2023, 2:02 pm » wrote: ↑ First, this is way too long for most, if not all, lefties to read. It's above your garde level, so don't even bother. Just skip down to the last sentence.
7% of the South's population, in 1860, owned 3 million of the 4 million slaves. There were 5 million whites, in the South, that were dirt poor. They are rarely mentioned, but their conditions were just as deplorable as the slaves. In fact, many of these poor whites worked for the 7% to police the slaves. It was work, so...
Before the civil war, from the beginning, this has mostly been the case. Planters and industrialists were the few, slave labor pitted against white labor was the mass. The few ruled the mass. This has always been the case since before America broke free of Britain.
The real question is, can we draw a straight line, from the accumulation of wealth we enjoy today, to the exploitations of slavery back then? We say that slavery was centuries ago, it has no effect on the wealth we have today. I say, that is incorrect. A straight line can be drawn:
Exploitation of slavery lead to enormous profit of the few.
The few hired millions of dirt-poor whites to police the slaves.
Poor whites emerged to middle class due to this new work.
Middle class whites now accumulated their own land, homes, modest luxuries, and even some slaves.
The middle class rolled on to the present day rooted in the exploitation of slavery, and exploitation of black labors after the civil war.
In short, we inherited the wealth from the back of slaves.
We were all slaves and if you were lucky you could somehow negotiate your own boat transportation to the new world with your old world country just saying goodbye and don't ever contact us again. Many came to the USA only by signing enslavement contracts.
In 1783 the owner of the people inhabiting what was to become the fully recognized country, the United States of America were released from subject status, >>>>>>chattel property<<<<<<<, of former owner King George.
Someone fought and died while living on tree bark in the winter time resulting in your enjoyment of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of movement and individual contract negotiation ability's, etc.
A freeman became a serf usually through force or necessity. Sometimes the greater physical and legal force of a local magnate intimidated freeholders or allodial owners into dependency. Often a few years of crop failure, a war, or brigandage might leave a person unable to make his own way. In such a case, he could strike a bargain with a lord of a manor. In exchange for gaining protection, his service was required: in labour, produce, or cash, or a combination of all. These bargains became formalised in a ceremony known as "bondage", in which a serf placed his head in the lord's hands, akin to the ceremony of homage where a vassal placed his hands between those of his overlord. These oaths bound the lord and his new serf in a feudal contract and defined the terms of their agreement.
Often these bargains were severe.