It's one of the greatest ironies that the reason we have this problem today is because Southern society as a whole was too merciful toward their slaves.
Kept families together, didn't work them to death like in Spanish Central America, didn't geld them like the Arabian slave trade did, allowed them a modicum of travel, payment, and their own crops to sell...
There's a lesson there, but it's not exactly a pleasant one.
Keep in mind that slave work went on long after importation was banned. So slave owners couldn't afford to work slaves to death because they couldn't just get more.
It's one of the greatest ironies that the reason we have this problem today is because Southern society as a whole was too merciful toward their slaves.
Kept families together, didn't work them to death like in Spanish Central America, didn't geld them like the Arabian slave trade did, allowed them a modicum of travel, payment, and their own crops to sell...
There's a lesson there, but it's not exactly a pleasant one.
Keep in mind that slave work went on long after importation was banned. So slave owners couldn't afford to work slaves to death because they couldn't just get more.
Nah.