S4 E3: The Cotton Empire
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Cotton Picking - The Bottleneck
Historian baptist combed over thousands of accounting books kept by cotton planters. What he found astonished him, the rapidly improving productivity of those workers decade by decade. Ed high lights an account by a man named henry clay, who endured slavery and later told of a brutal device. He claimed that after he was sold in the domestic slave trade, moved from north carolina, where he was born, to louisiaa. But i think he was also using it as a metaphor to talk about the ways in which, increasingly, enslavers a measured how much enslave people were picking.
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