NOW who won't read things? YOU equated chains and slavery, not me. YOU are the only one marking the argument I said there was universal suffrage. I always said suffrage was a mixed bag, even after 1781 or 1787.
Indentured servants, and convicts were the majority of early labor imports. The breakup of the feudal system, 75-100 years after …
NOW who won't read things? YOU equated chains and slavery, not me. YOU are the only one marking the argument I said there was universal suffrage. I always said suffrage was a mixed bag, even after 1781 or 1787.
Indentured servants, and convicts were the majority of early labor imports. The breakup of the feudal system, 75-100 years after Henry VIII really put a dagger into it, had English cities overrun with the poor and unemployed. And it was criminal to be one. The first vagrancy laws were enacted, but then the work houses (which can only be described as slavery) were overflowing. The New World gave the Crown a place to put these people. Chattel slavery evolved as exclusively African as the cotton and tobacco markets expanded beyond the capacity for white labor-- and when Muslim slave traders made that an irresistible market choice for many big farmers, and enslaving--or the next best thing-- white people fell out of fashion.
NOW who won't read things? YOU equated chains and slavery, not me. YOU are the only one marking the argument I said there was universal suffrage. I always said suffrage was a mixed bag, even after 1781 or 1787.
Indentured servants, and convicts were the majority of early labor imports. The breakup of the feudal system, 75-100 years after Henry VIII really put a dagger into it, had English cities overrun with the poor and unemployed. And it was criminal to be one. The first vagrancy laws were enacted, but then the work houses (which can only be described as slavery) were overflowing. The New World gave the Crown a place to put these people. Chattel slavery evolved as exclusively African as the cotton and tobacco markets expanded beyond the capacity for white labor-- and when Muslim slave traders made that an irresistible market choice for many big farmers, and enslaving--or the next best thing-- white people fell out of fashion.