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Did the cotton heads separate from the stalks, jump out of the fields, and then jump into the cotton gin ... all under their own power?
MORON.
Today, it might surprise you -- "you" being
"a desk-driving yuppie piece of SHIT who has no idea about how much labor it takes to support his society" -- that all manner of crops in the USA are STILL PICKED BY HAND. (Tomatoes, apples, etc.) Like, DARRRRR, you stupid bunghole! Did you actually think Watt & Whitney solved all labor requirements in the fields?
The history of agriculture is very much a history of the intensive use of Human labor. Mechanization and chemicals have remarkably reduced that in the West, but we're talking about people proposing that the South could have just avoided the use of slave labor in order to exploit the rich and all-year seasons of that region.
BULLSHIT. In the late 1700s to early 1800s, Human labor WAS THE SOLUTION for agriculture. Horses can't pick cotton, either, shitmeat!