Thanks to slavery, in the South capital and labor were combined in nearly four million sweating field hands picking cotton and planting rice. (William C. Davis (historian))

Thanks to slavery, in the South capital and labor were combined in nearly four million sweating field hands picking cotton and planting rice.

William C. Davis (historian)

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