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| Topic | It's shocking to me that people still don't know the real history of Christopher |
| BlackJackCat 10/15/20 4:20:07 PM #172: | WhiskeyDisk posted... how dare anybody in [current year] acknowledge the accomplishments of an imperfect man that was a complete and total product of the times he lived in? What he did then is not OK now, and he must therefore be erased from history!, or only used as an example of pure, colonialist evil. I mean there are plenty of people who did dubious things they don't put statues up for, and yet they haven't been expunged from history. Maybe the issue isn't as hyperbolic as you make it out to be? Unbridled9 posted... Well, here's the thing. In the U.S. slavery was really only something that was big in the south. This was because of Tobacco and Cotton. Thing is that these crops aren't actually worth a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. They might sell for a pretty penny but they take a lot of hours and man-power to produce. If you have to pay your workers it's just not really worth it to grow either. But the thing about slavery is that you DON'T have to pay your workers which is why it became viable. One could argue cash crops were a source of economic power, in turn spurring the industrial revolution to new heights. You might not have had one without the other, if the need for the innovation wasn't there. But yeah slavery was an integral part of making it largely profitable, especially to the standards of Southern "aristocracy." --- This issues still comes to mind now and then Cake was baking in the oven and mother was making tea for us ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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