re: TIL all white men got to vote just 14 years before black men

If you believe in reparations, should po' white trash that can link their dna to early settlers get some too?

And honestly, what would you rather do:

1. Trek through unexplored jungles having no idea what your next meal, water, snake, predator, scalping, demon, etc is on the other side of your next machete swing...hoping to find something to keep you going until tomorrow.(naked and afraid)

2. Working hard manual labor with guaranteed food, water, shelter.

Think about it really. Plantations were just factories and like others stated, people went right back to doing what they knew because treking out on their own like the settlers did was apparently not appealing enough than the safety of the situation their former masters created for them.

"Oh they raped and whipped".....and then said "thank you master may I have another"?

I'd rather work for the "man" than get eaten by wolves after being scalped by an Indians I couldn't out run because I was too emaciated from lack of food and water....but that's me.