Slavery and the Origins of the American Police State May 31, 2020 | 0 By Ben Fountain From the beginning, some Americans have been able to move more freely than others They were called patrollers or, variously, “paterollers,” “paddyrollers,” or “patterolls,” and they were meant to be part of the solution to Colonial America’s biggest problem, labor. Unlike Great Britain, which had a large, basically immobile peasant class that could be forced to work for subsistence wages, there weren’t enough cheap bodies in America to do the grunt work. If you were a planter looking to make your fortune in rice or tobacco—the New World’s cash crops—you had to size up to industrial scale, and for that you needed bodies, armies of bodies, a labor force that could be made to work for terms no less brutal than those inflicted on the miserables of Europe. Posted in Commentary - The Southern Truth, Education Leave a Comment Name (required) Email (will not be published) (required) Comment Click here to cancel reply. Related Posts Colonel Vaughan Witten Making International Moves with Two Books On Display at the 75th Frankfurter Buchmesse in Germany December 7, 2023 | No Comments » Parent Action Coalition for Education: How Education Impacted and Influenced Famous Black People Lives? December 1, 2023 | No Comments » Dr. Zuurveen Terminates School Board Candidacy To Continue Being an Independent Voice for the Black Community In Critical Times Like These November 27, 2023 | 1 Comment » Marilyn Sessom: My Mentor and My Friend, Celebrates 70th Birthday November 17, 2023 | No Comments » The Southern Truth: “Theft of A Nation— Guest Speaker, Brother Tarik” November 14, 2023 | No Comments »