Doesn't recent scholarship reveal slavery to be very adaptable. That in Richmond for example slavery was in transition from agricultural to industrial labor...that Genovese was right...slavery might have existed until the Great Depression when slave value might have dropped during a period of asset deflation...

Dave Riddick

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