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Slave labor was too expensive to use because you risked losing your valuable capital. Instead new immigrants were used such as Irish (East Coast) or Chinese (We
by shmulkey18 14y ago
Slave labor was too expensive to use because you risked losing your valuable capital. Instead new immigrants were used such as Irish (East Coast) or Chinese (West Coast).
- planetguy 14y agoSlave labour was used sometimes, e.g. the Thailand-Burma railway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Railway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Railway Five hundred men died for every mile of track laid, but hey, they had too many prisoners anyway!
- abraham 14y agoThat's the "slave" labor.