Ed Weick wrote: > Pete, you say "I rather suspect the primary reason for using african slaves > was the convenient skin marker that made it impossible for the labour to > ever be free of pursuit." That may have been a reason, but not likely the > primary one. In building up their plantations, Europeans tried to use > native Indian labour, but soon found that the Indians were not immune > to European diseases and thus died off in large numbers.
The issue was why/if they didn't use _Europeans_ as slaves... Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
