To this very day.i hated picking cotton.the farmers is the only one's who made good money.there were no good money picking cotton.kids young as 6 or 7 years old.picking cotton.i was one of them
A lot of people got rich from cotton.free labor from slavery.the building of America.this is another good reason black descendants of slaves should be given reparation.a debt that was never paid Forty Acres and a Mule we never got.other people were given reparation.but not black people
Young farm laborers never are paid much. It's not because of the crop or your color; it would be the same with any other crop and for people of any other color. As for the "building of America," keep in mind that relatively few people were enriched by cotton farming. The vast majority of Whites didn't own slaves, and they were impoverished because they couldn't compete with slave owners for land or with slaves for jobs. They ended up having to move north. Slavery kept the south poor; it didn't "build America." As for reparations, I would say that the descendants of slaves alive today are the biggest winners from slavery. Without it they would be in Africa. And why should descendants of non-slave owners pay reparations to the biggest winners from slavery?
