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Vegas » 14 Feb 2023, 3:09 pm » wrote: ↑

14 Feb 2023, 3:09 pm

You are looking at this in a tangible perspective. Yes, there was complete destruction. But that doesn't mean there was a destruction in the mindset of the South of how they want to use blacks. They were more pissed off. They exploited themin a different way. First slavery, then through cheap pay. 

Again, the mindset continued. The South didn't just forget overnight. They still viewed blacks as less human. The exploitation resumed, only differently. 

This is the same for the whites back then. Only 25% of whites were literate, barely. They were dirt poor. They were just as unskilled. 

Yes, they were paid less. That's why there were so many riots. The blacks were a threat to the whites because they were paid less. They were fighting for work, but the whites had a hard time competing with slave wages. 

This just isn't true. The South wasn't a complete wasteland with nothing. If so, nobody would have survived, even the whites. 

There was work in the North...for slave wages, which led to numerous riots. Again, the exploitation was just manifested in a different way.

People have been complaining from the beginning of time that they were exploited for cheap pay.  If they don't like it, then don't work there - they had the option to move wherever they wanted to.  The fact is, they were completely unskilled.  Many tried to work their own land.  Most weren't very good at it.  Back then, it was survival of the fittest.  They were FREE.  Blacks were FREE only through the huge amount of human capital and monetary capital expended and wasted through war to free them.  They could choose to live and work elsewhere, if others would pay them more.  Minimum wage wasn't a thing back then.  Whites did not owe Blacks anything after they sacrificed so many lives and so much money to free them.

There was all kinds of exploitation back then. Children were exploited.  Women were exploited.  Immigrants were exploited.  White trash was exploited.  The fact remains, this nation, the USofA was not built on the backs of slaves.  And, no one living today benefited from slave labor.  Not at all.