Asclepias
Diamond Member
Slaves didnt get paid except in very very rare cases. It was free labor. This was long before the depression.and during the period of time the US had become a economic power due to exploitation of slaves. The rich have always stolen their wealth from people they either cheated or enslaved.Its a well known fact that the people that have the most worked the least physically. They just used other people to make their money for them. For example. wealthy whites worked the hell out of white and Black slaves. Later new money was created by selling and working Blacks and also stealing land from NA's so the slaves could work that land..
I don't know if 75¢ per day was slave wages for chopping (weeding) cotton, but MY OWN mother earned that pay back during the depression for that back breaking job. She told me many times that she would rather drag a 100 pound sack from picking cotton than to chop it.