Um, the entire plantation system (and the early industrial capitalism that it represented, not just in the United States, but throughout the tropical Americas) was a killing machine. The biggest migration to the Americas (before the civil war) weren't those who came on their own free will, but those who were enslaved or endentured
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Date: 2007-03-21 05:38 pm (UTC)