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To: HPilot who wrote (449034)1/21/2009 9:55:54 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1577194
 
The other crops - indigo, rice etc weren't as big and important as cotton, I think. I do think industrialization and mechanization would have made slavery uneconomical eventually but that wouldn't have been for more than half a century later. Terrible to think of it continuing for that long a time.