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 Posted in Commentary - The Southern Truth, Education Leave a Comment Name (required) Email (will not be published) (required) Comment Click here to cancel reply.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 Black History Includes Black American Slave Holocaust, a Justification for Reparations NOW! Remembering Mr. Peoples: The Legendary Social Prophet of Reparations NOW February 6, 2021 | No Comments » Subscribe with Pride To Celebrate Black History Month February 5, 2021 | 1 Comment » Farewell To One of the Greatest Actresses of All Times, Cicely Tyson February 2, 2021 | No Comments » FREE SUBSCRIPTION To PACE NEWS Limited Time Only! January 9, 2021 | 2 Comments » If It Was Only About Our Health and the Pandemic, But It’s Not December 19, 2020 | No Comments »