If land is so cheap that anyone can start a farm, why hire people rather than working your own land? What about the yeoman farmer ideal?
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Replying to @HbdNrx @AliceTeller
Cause u can be more productive if u have slaves
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Replying to @SentientCloud_ @AliceTeller
Sure, and then you undercut the value of your neighbor's labor
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Replying to @HbdNrx @AliceTeller
I agree with both of u slavery did screw over the white working class but also there was so much land that every white man had access 2it
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Increasing the need for slaves to make productive use of the land
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Replying to @SentientCloud_ @AliceTeller
The land doesn't need to be worked, but the farmers do need to sell the fruits (even just to each other). If the guy next door uses slave
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labor, he fucks you over even if there's plenty of land.
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Replying to @HbdNrx @AliceTeller
Was there any farms in the south that didn't use slave labor
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Replying to @AliceTeller @HbdNrx
How were they even able to stay in business with competition using literal slave labor
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People can scrape by at near subsistence level if the land is available.
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