Tom Reiss Quotes

The Sugar Planter Counted On An Average Of Ten To Fifteen Years' Work From A Slave Before He Was Driven To Death, To Be Replaced By Another Fresh Off The Boat. Along With Malnutrition, Bugs And Diseases Could Also Eventually Do In Someone Working Up To Eighteen Hours A Day. The Brutality Of The American Cotton Kingdom A Century Later Could Not Compare To That Of Saint-Domingue In The 1700s. There Would Be No Shortage Of Cruel Overseers In The United States, But North American Slavery Was Not Based On A Business Model Of Systematically Working Slaves To Death In Order To Replace Them With Newly Bought Captives. The French Sugar Plantations Were A Charnel House.

Tom Reiss Quotes: The Sugar Planter Counted On An Average Of Ten To Fifteen Years' Work From A Slave Before He Was Driven

Tom Reiss Quotes: The Sugar Planter Counted On An Average Of Ten To Fifteen Years' Work From A Slave Before He Was Driven

Tom Reiss Quotes: The Sugar Planter Counted On An Average Of Ten To Fifteen Years' Work From A Slave Before He Was Driven

Tom Reiss Quotes: The Sugar Planter Counted On An Average Of Ten To Fifteen Years' Work From A Slave Before He Was Driven

Tom Reiss Quotes: The Sugar Planter Counted On An Average Of Ten To Fifteen Years' Work From A Slave Before He Was Driven

Tom Reiss Quotes: The Sugar Planter Counted On An Average Of Ten To Fifteen Years' Work From A Slave Before He Was Driven

Tom Reiss Quotes: The Sugar Planter Counted On An Average Of Ten To Fifteen Years' Work From A Slave Before He Was Driven

Tom Reiss Quotes: The Sugar Planter Counted On An Average Of Ten To Fifteen Years' Work From A Slave Before He Was Driven

Tom Reiss Quotes: The Sugar Planter Counted On An Average Of Ten To Fifteen Years' Work From A Slave Before He Was Driven

Tom Reiss Quotes: The Sugar Planter Counted On An Average Of Ten To Fifteen Years' Work From A Slave Before He Was Driven

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