PRACTICAL HISTORY: SLAVERY IN PRACTICE | 2008-03-18
A generation ago, a black-white couple set out to write a book called "Time on the Cross" which was to be the usual crying session about the suffering of blacks under slavery. They then started READING for it.
The result was a book that got screamingly denounced by all the Mommy Professors who would have demanded the usual Prizes for the one originally intended.
It turned out that as the authors READ THE FACTS, they found that masters encouraged stable families among their blacks. Score one for Family Values! They WORK!
Secondly, a master didn't want to cause trouble in the population they had to LIVE among.
Thirdly, another practical point. A man who owned a plantation who wanted to dally was rich. He could find plenty of white girls to dally with.
The really awful plantations, and there were plenty of them, were the ones where the owner was an absentee. Unlike Northern factory workers, the resident owner knew every one of his workers BY NAME. He had daily contact with them. So they were treated, BY NINETEENTH STANDARDS, well.
"Time on the Cross" ended up being an econometric study, showing the percentage of total output that went to the workers. It was astonishingly high on plantations compared to other NINETEENTH CENTURY production facilities.
Oddly enough, in tandem with this point, the study concluded that the plantation economy, contrary to the accepted belief, was actually very profitable. It PAID to treat your workers well.
This was a deadly blow to Marxism, which insists that the more you exploited workers, the more you profit.
This, and the confirmation tha families values worked, turned Mommy Professor's anger into sreaming rage.
There were octoroon parties and like disgusting crap in the cities, but that was voluntary.
Reality is a real damper on Politically Correct history.