That's... wild. I had no idea it was that expensive. So ten slaves roughly equaled the price of one used medium to large scale combine: https://www.machinerype

That's... wild. I had no idea it was that expensive. So ten slaves roughly equaled the price of one used medium to large scale combine: https://www.machinerypete.com/harvesting/combines https://www.machinerypete.com/harvesting/combines My point though was about the early days. There were no machines like that available, just slaves and animals. As long as there were slaves was there an incentive to develop this level of mechanization?