What gets lost in the history of that time period was that there were also white slaves from Europe and Great Britain. Some had debts to pay and others got into trouble and were given a choice to become indentured servants in the new world or go to prison there. The prisons at the time were nasty dirty places were they were barely fed and given clean water.
More importantly, because these white slaves had an expiration date when they would be released as a free people but with no where to go and nothing to do it with; they were worked much harder than the black slaves at the time. Many never lived to be a free person again. They were considered expendable whereas the black slaves were for life and many were considered a part of an extended family more or less. A very different dynamic. No one likes the idea of someone being a slave but if you were a slave during that time period; you were better off being a black slave rather than a white one. You ate better and lived longer plus you didn't have to work as hard.
Looking back, because of the societal problems we keep having over and over, maybe the farmers should have only used white slaves and not imported any from Africa. Hindsight is always 20/20 as they say though.
It was cheaper to hire someone than to put a slave who represented an investment into the hold of a ship loading and unloading cargo.
But history will be the first casualty in this ethnic cleansing.
If a foreign power had invaded and toppled our monuments, Americans would be fighting to repulse them. Instead the damage is being done from within.
