Remember some of the original Right Wingers: Plantation owners, which left their black slaves to do most of the work.
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There is much to be said about plantation owners of the south, we had no plantations up north so we have to look at how things were done in the south.
Trying to put myself in the place of a 1700 owner of land in the South is interesting.
Say I inherate land from family and move down to the South as a Northerner who had never seen a black person before. I now own a big home, and 20 slaves, humans I had no idea of how they got here or where they come from.
Moving into town and the Southern Society is a bit of a shock, all the taboos and learning to use the correct fork for salad and what a LADY was to do or not do---
This I got from a diary of a woman that came down from upper Maine and was was no ones fool. She came from the sea going familys, a German of stock, tall and big boned. She as a child had rode the boats both fishing and down the coast on the big boats bringing in supplys of timber and goods.
So here she is all dressed out in the fashion of the day chafing over the petty coats and the girdles she had never worn before. It is hot and muggy, bugs everywhere and the smell of the earth was far from the sea strange.
She wrote her days at her new home as most strange, she went out to look at the slaves living quarters and demanded the priveys be burned, new ones built as the smell caused her to gag.