From Pine View Farm

“The Lost Cause” 0

Buried deep in a story about another subject in my local rag–almost an aside–are two sentences that in their off-handed casualness highlight just exactly what cause was lost.

Owners treated the workers* better after an 1808 law prohibiting new slave importation, McGill said.

“You wanted to get the longest service you could out of the ones you owned,” he said.

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*Did he really refer to them as “workers”?

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