(07-07-2019, 10:21 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(07-07-2019, 08:03 PM)mikesez Wrote: Haitian slavery may have been worse.
All slavery varied in time and in place.
Everything you said is true, in terms of what the masters in the US could have gotten away with legally, but peer pressure meant that slaves would not work on Sundays, even if they were instead compelled to attend the church with the Master's preacher.
What you said about slavery in Brazil is also right, but more pertinent to the last century that it existed. The centuries before that, the social norm in most of South America and the Caribbean was to literally work the slaves to death, and keep bringing in massive numbers of new slaves to replace them.  Owners in the US South were never so careless; at the least they wanted their slave populations growing by reproduction rather than importation.

I'm glad you know more than the scholar who wrote the damn book, what ever would we do if you weren't here to correct him?