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It's fascinating how we are still so influenced by the cultural identities that the earliest European settlers held.

The men had created a hierarchy situation that mimicked England; a few living with many liberties in lavish estates while many lived with very few liberties in service to the elite.

"As one scholar later put it, 'The South was not founded to create slavery; slavery was recruited to perpetuate the South.'" Aka that way of life is not sustainable.

It was a Germainic idea that all peoples are born free; the Greek and Roman philosophy embraced by Tidewater gentry assumed the opposite: most humans were born into bondage. Liberty was something that was granted, and thus a privilege, not a right. Some people had many liberties, some had few, some had none at all.