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In most of the debates I've seen on whether if the confederacy won the war it would have continued slavery for a long amount of time I've always had this question? Would a plantation style economy where chattel slaves work on an estate in large scale agriculture be a viable economic model, even for a third world country, in modern times? Slavery I think would only last for as long as it benefits the plantation aristocracy, so could they create a modern banana republic like state based on the same model as the Antebellum period? I have heard that modern migrant workers picking crops for agribarons is a similar process and comparable in how it works.
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