Concerning a poor white being JUST as Bad as being a slave.
well that's BS.
1st of all let's establish what i'm not saying. Being a poor white was NOT a PICNIC. it was CRAP.
But being a slave was Crap on fire with gasoline.
1st of all. slaves had ZERO rights to their own bodies Gunny. ZERO.
the masters could and DID sell, beat, starve, rape, arrange rape, torture, maim, and kill a slave at ANY time with ZERO consequence.
Poor whites had all the rights of being a FREE WHITE man, It may not have worked out as well in practice as for middle-class or wealthy whites but it was A H3LL of a lot better than being a slave.
It's weird to me that some people want to minimize the CRAP storm that American slavery was.
But if everytime someone mentions U.S. Slavery you want to mention Poor whites during the same era.
How about mentioning poor free/escaped Blacks too Gunny. Were they as bad off as poor whites?
AT LEAST.
being a POOR FREE black man in America pre-1865 had to be CRAP.
but even as bad as it was to be a poor free black man do you know what those FREE poor black men DIDN'T want. They didn't want to be SLAVES.
At least let that sink in before you start saying that being a poor white was JUST as bad.
Last edited by revelarts; 07-09-2017 at 10:00 AM.
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