system
A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
If I recall a lot of the good soil in the settled parts of the colonial south was getting depleted by tobacco farming and a few other nutrient intensive cash crops. What they were too naive to see was the cotton gin and the subsequent cotton boom on the horizon until it was too late
gpt
Not to mention that it’s a lot easier to expect young grandchildren will give something up than for them to just decide to give it up. 

Racial views hardened significantly from 1750
To 1850.