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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (874852)7/23/2015 9:36:38 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576886
 
This may be news to you but the end of slavery freed the slaves but it didn't get rid of the people who had been slaves. For many decades, the former slaves mostly kept doing the same things they'd been doing before the war.

at one time, Natchez MS had more millionaires than New York City? In 1850, Natchez had over 500 millionaires, half the millionaires in America. Gonna check, but it that inflation adjusted?

No, that's not inflation adjusted. They were actually millionaires.



To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (874852)7/23/2015 9:46:03 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1576886
 
Cotton picking machines didn't become successful until 1944....

Right. So how did cotton get picked between the end of the Civil War and the rise of the machine?

Sharecroppers. Sharecroppers were not as efficient as slaves. But poor whites got pulled into the system to help balance things out. And they were cheaper than keeping slaves.

Slavery would have died out as soon as the plantation owners discovered the economics of sharecroppers.


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