Thread by @KosherSoul

Principal Bill Nolte tried it.
This is all you need to know:
This might be a short thread...so buckle up...
In my book The Cooking Gene. I had to deal with the legacy of cotton. I used to go picking cotton for long days. An Antebellum bale was about 400 pounds of picked cotton.

Hardscrabble poor white folks or as one author put it "Dixie's Forgotten People" didn't get the whip. Their mothers were not r*aped to humiliate them, their children&husbands. They were often deputized against Black folks&were used as a racial football to maintain planter power.

The largest forced migration of born Americans was the Domestic Slave Trade. It involved the rupture and movement of hundreds of thousands of Black men, women and children. From 1790 to 1861 a Black person could expect to be sold 2-3 times in their working life.

From 1830-1860 a Black person was sold every 3 minutes on average

Cotton made up something like 2/3 of America's economic export value...not counting tobacco, rice, sugar, wheat, corn, hemp, coal, fish, and other commodities gained by enslaved labor.

The most valuable thing America had as a whole...its almost 5 million enslaved Blacks. The most valuable thing full stop was the womb of the Black woman. READ THAT AGAIN.

A white worker could not be worked to death.
A white worker could not be sold.
A white worker didn't know the terror of being sold on an auction block, having their genitals and secondary sex organs examined before a crowd.
This isn't about poor people.

This is about the false equivalency of comparing the South's freeborn white peasant class with the enslaved when it suits hypocrites and associating them with the planter aristocracy and their descendants when it doesn't.

This is my 3rd great grandfather, Captain Richard Henry Bellamy, Confederate States of America. This is his daughter, by a 13 year old girl. She worked as his damn maid. He fought hard to deny Black people the vote. I have receipts so don't come up in my mentions to f*ck w/me.