I think some of us miss-understand the South's "Original Sin" that can never be forgiven....

[Boxerfan]

And I know this is open to interpretation. But I read a thread that framed the original sin as Slavery itself. I have family paperwork that dispels that notion and how I've learned it.

The sin was they lost the free help. A lot of families had large farms and depended on cheep or free labor to make the grain hay cotton whatever. My family had just bought "A fine breeding Negro" before the civil war hit and they had counted on his offspring for-well you can guess. They also bemoaned-well wailed-about the fact they had all this land & machinery that they had no idea or ability to use going idle. Basically those ungrateful slaves just left after we treated them so well....

And that-as I know it-is the "Original Sin" those of such heritage speak of.


And before you give me any flack-I was dis-inherited and dis-owned by that side of my (Fathers) family. They are all self entitled and think I'm defective because I didn't make myself rich just by being from such a awesome family. Sadly I had a honesty defect-I had it early & chose a life of manual labor (Auto repair) instead of high finances. What a maroon.

But I digress a wee tad. Not proud of my family heritage except for the one I have made.

[brush]

1. Ahhhh..."free help" (labor), is actually called enslavement.

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No self-serving euphemisms, please. Another way of putting it, directly and to the point is, it's stolen labor—not paying people for their work while keeping them captive.

Any other way of minimizing the horror of it is self-delusion, which attempts to absolve the perpetrators of blame for enslaving other human beings.

[multigraincracker]

2. They were just too lazy to

to pick their own damn cotton.

[brush]

3. I second that.