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What was all this free time spent doing in the pre-industrial era?
by fastball 11mo ago
What was all this free time spent doing in the pre-industrial era?
- rightbyte 11mo agoAlternating between grinding your knife and making wood sculptures.
- johnnyanmac 11mo agopre-industrial? Lots of tending to the farm, caring for family, and managing slaves I suppose. Had some free time between that to work with your community for bonding or business dealings or whatnot.
- fastball 11mo agoDon't think slave management was the average pre-industrial experience.
- johnnyanmac 11mo agoDepends on your region, but let's not pretend it was some rarity pre cotton gin. You didn't need to be as rich as yo think to have slave labor.
- fastball 11mo agoQuite the leap to go from "pre-industrial people" to "Antebellum US Southerners", and even then the majority of that (hyperspecific) group did not own slaves.