1 | He was a real slave driver. He probably would have loved it if we were robots. | |
2 | On the eve of the Civil War, a slave or a slave owner would hardly have believed these gains possible in less than a century and a half, if ever. | |
3 | This child of slaveholders, Twain grew up to write a book that many view as the most profoundly anti-racist novel by an American that clearly spoke from his own experience. | |
4 | Southern slave owners largely ignored these investment opportunities in the South and continued to invest in slaves because earning maximum profits was not their primary motivation. | |
5 | Slave-produced commercial crops required a host of middlemen to sell and transport them to markets and to finance and supply the slave-owning planters. |