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Protocol 5 posted:Also a Rhode Islander, and the controversy is pretty dumb. At the time it was named, plantation just meant a place where trees, crops, etc. were planted rather than naturally occurring. The idea of using slave labor for farming in New England is laughable on its face anyway, since why the gently caress would you want to feed, clothe and house your labor force year-round with such a short growing season? What are you going to have them do over the winter, shovel snow? Lets just remind ourselves a huge proportion of the atlantic slave trade was through Rhode Island and a large number of the cutesy palatial estates and manors that still exist were built on profit from selling other humans before we get all flippant about it 
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