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and, after Bacon's rebellion, whites in Virginia who chose to reify heritable lifelong bond-labor into a racial caste system.
To break up racial solidarity of labor. Source: The Invention of the White Race (an extraordinarily well-sourced work I recommend to all.)
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In any case, while not all blacks disagreed with slavery, I would assume 99% of blacks disagreed with the racialized caste system.
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And we can be confident that such a system existed, because if it didn't, why did the South fight so hard to reinstitute it via Jim Crow?
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