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Originally posted by Ex_MislTech
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That pretty much sums it all up.
Both sides of the isle are puppets for ppl with billions.
Originally posted by Liquesence
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Guaranteed shelter that the slaves mostly built themselves with what odds and ends were left (usually); guaranteed clothing, more one shirt/pants/shoes that had to last the entire year--even in the winter--without the option to buy anything else or new, but pieced together from sackcloth; beds of straw and furniture pieced together with sticks; food, basic nutritional necessities and whatever was left, cornbread, pot liquor, fat back three times a day, and what they grew in their own gardens--when they had the time after working dawn to dusk in the fields with the occasional meat (or whatever they could catch/trap when they WEREN"T working); a job that they could not leave, as they were slaves, and had no means to better themselves, unless they got lucky and became a "house negro.' Of course, some masters were better than, but as a whole, slaves did what they were told, and made do with what they were given--with few other options...