Why there are Black People in America
They are the descendants of slaves, who were brought to work, in a hellishly hot and humid part of the country (which was most of the Old South), where nobody whose ancestors had not lived and worked in Equatorial Africa could work. Property owners in, say, Georgia in 1830, had tried indentured white people (who had a tendency to run away), and they had tried enslaving Native Americans (who tended to wither and die in captivity) and basically the only workers left, who could stand up under a Georgia sun and pick cotton in the quantity required by the new cotton gin, were Black. The timely realization of which is why, in 1860, Georgia was the richest state in the Union.
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