Southerners Still Love George III

Back in the 17th century, American colonial farmers did beg the English Parliament and the British King, George III not to institute slavery in their colonies.
To their way of thinking, it would mean their ancestors and their families had left Europe and suffered and died to begin again for no apparent reason.
With all the work being done by slaves, how could an ordinary man secure work, or competitively
plant and farm.
George had other things on his mind.
Britain had shelled out big big money to protect American settlers from America's native populations,
and to fight the French-Indian War for them.
France and Spain were growing richer by the day from their slave-holding colonies in the new world.
As these countries were ever present threats to Great Britain, George felt if they got enough money
to launch and execute another attack on British soil, they would do so.  They would most assuredly do so if they saw British coffers under a strain, or running dry. France especially, just loved land.
Besides, British people were in Parliament regularly to complain they were being worked long hours
at workplaces with few or no opportunities to take a break, eat a morsel, or relieve oneself.
The men complained bitterly that they made so little money, they had to succumb to employers' demands they bring in their wives to help with the work.  Then, these same employers began to demand a man's children come in to become part of the workday.
Children testified their work got slower after mid-day, but if they began to miss something at their
work stations, or nod without meaning to, they were rapped sharply across the knuckles with some
sort of wood measuring stick. So Parliament and the King felt obliged to take that pressure off citizens at home, even if it introduced hardship to citizens abroad.
American colonists begged to be spared life in a place where landed gentry would become as rich as
can be, while the remaining colonists could find little to do to sustain themselves.
Apparently, by and by, Abraham Lincoln came to agree with these colonists; but I suppose of course by then it was too late. Emancipation of American slaves came more than two centuries after
slavery in the colonies began. By then, the disenfranchised turned their bitterness toward those who
could do nothing about it.
The slaves were available  to be able to absorb all the hatred the average colonist could muster.
No ear was available to colonists in England. After a time, many of the poor among the colonists thought England should be willing to send the slaves back home.
They had no hopes of asking plantation owners to alter the money machines.
They were by then too proud to admit how lost was their cause.
They opened up whole-heartedly to what would centuries later be termed the Stockholm Syndrome.
Even today, so many southerners identify with the glories of slavery. So do their minions!
And yet, what could my ancestors do that theirs could not?
Now that my brethren are trying to catch up as well, we are to get no credit for having built the new
world. There was no real industry here before my ancestors arrived. Of course they brought forth the
crops which made these colonies rich enough to fight Great Britain- and win.
They made the country rich enough to offer immigrants work at the turn of the 20th century and since.
All of Massachusetts, all of New York got richer than rich right there in their harbors where the slave
trade was built, and where slave products were bought and sold. Naturally, all the patents involved
over the years went to owners, then to other Caucasians who happened upon such patents.
Are those of us who are descendants of African slaves  not to be proud of them who built America, who only survived because they so loved one another? Well...
I hear, though, that Burkina Faso is lovely this time of year.