I don't know who those people are, but we realist know that as long as their is still a liberal DUmmie drawing a breath somewhere, racism will be alive and thriving.
I would never think the bumper sticker was raciest unless pointed out to me.
OK living in the south I did learn a thing about Slavery, it was not just the Blacks but the French and Indians sold on the block. Way back then when $30.00 a month was a living wage the cost to buy a human went from between 3 months wages for the ordinary person up to 5 years salary.
What we forget is human labor was not cheap, one had to feed, house, and clothe, the slaves, provide medical care and train them in their duty's.
Big investment here, in order to get a return on the money the owner had to treat them well. Some of the biggest number of slave owners were freed slaves themselves. [ they would not have been slaves had their own people in Africa not sold them to the slave ships.]
Storeys of slaves being beaten are rare but fact. Would be like you or I with a truck with a dead battery running about smashing in the windows to teach it a lesson. To loose or kill a slave means all the money invested in them is gone and now more money has to be spent to replace them.
This I learned from people that had G G grand parents that came here as slaves.
Returning to New England I have found some of the laws on the books from the early 1700's as to how slaves in this neck of the woods were to be cared for and treated-----Interesting-------A slave owner that mistreated his slaves was flogged in the town square. The One Church in town had a balcony that was for the slaves, all owners were required to send the slaves to church each sunday and dressed appropriately.
I do not know what the laws were in the mid west regarding slaves was but I imagine with the cost factor they were much the same as the South.-------As I was told by a very old lady to put this into today's terms, one does not spend $800.00 for a dog to starve it, mistreat it, and/ or work it to death. The slaves were high price and valued for their work. And yes they did work like a dog, most were loyal to their masters and when set free had no place to go.
