MTL - Rebirth in America: Great Slave Owner-Chapter 1 new orleans

For us moderns, New Orleans may just be the prefix of KFC Chicken Dumplings, but before the American Civil War, this Louisiana seaport city was the stronghold of slavery, and its importance was far greater than the later "American" The status of Richmond, the capital of the Confederate States, was much higher, because it was the largest slave transfer station in the world at that time, and it also had the largest and most slave market.

This phenomenon was determined by the special economic situation in the southern part of the United States at that time. Unlike the northern part of the United States, which developed capitalism and built factories, most of the southern part of the United States were large estate owners who ran plantations. The African black slaves who are healthy, adapt to the humid climate of the south, and have strong resistance to common infectious diseases come to work for them. Of course, the most important reason is that the price of these slaves is cheap enough, and they do not have any psychological burden to use, even if After being tortured to death, the only loss is the money of a large animal, so the black slave trade here is extremely prosperous.

In fact, not only those big estate owners, but even many ordinary people in the southern United States would buy one or two black slaves as servants or money-making tools, so basically there are slave owners everywhere in the southern United States, the difference is only the size.

Of course, for those slave traders who came from the faraway Ivory Coast, they were most welcome to those big slave owners, because they could buy dozens of black slaves at one time, as long as there were a few such slaves. Big customer, then this trip is basically over.

Therefore, when the slave trader Sheffield saw from a distance a tall, thin, not handsome but very sunny boy with a dozen people walking towards him, he greeted him with great excitement: "Master Tangning, I am here, and your most loyal friend Sheffield is waiting for you here."

When the boy approached, Sheffield immediately went up to give a warm hug, and then said: "My dear Tony, I heard that you were sick some time ago, I was really worried to death, but God bless you are all right now. !"

Hearing a slave trader say "God bless", Tony Tangning felt very awkward. If God knew that you were doing this kind of wicked business, it would be fine if he didn't throw you into hell. Can I still bless you?

And when it comes to the disease, in fact, it is not a disease at all, but a time-travel. Yes, a street writer in 2016 wore it on the son of the great slave owner in the southern state of Louisiana in the United States in 1858. At this moment, Mr. Tangning, although he appeared to be an American, his soul had already been replaced by another Chinese named Tangning.

Fortunately, Tangning in her previous life was a writer herself. She already had several time-travel protagonists in her own writing, not to mention the time-travel novels he had read, so she was able to get used to it very quickly. She only used one. It took a few months to adjust to his new identity.

To be honest, he was very excited when he first got used to it, because he is now a slave owner, and he has only a frail and sick father, and there are no brothers and sisters around, so he has the final say in this family. There are three large estates, hundreds of black slaves, dozens of thugs in the house, and there are several little black girls in the house who can warm themselves up at any time. Well, I can't accept the last point, because it turns out that this pair The owner of the body differs greatly from his own aesthetics. In fact, the aesthetics of European and American men are very different from those of Asia.

If these little girls are just a small problem, then there is still a big problem waiting for me, and that is the Civil War three years later. It's over, but that's all for the future. The most important thing right now is to pick all the mature cotton. This is the starting capital for everything in the future, especially this year's cotton harvest, so Tangning had to come here. The slave market purchased a batch of black slaves to supplement the manpower gap of each plantation.

Therefore, facing the slave trader Sheffield, although he didn't like the other's profession very much, he still had to answer in a condescending manner: "It's okay, it's just a little sick." Then he immediately changed the topic: "By the way, you guys How was the voyage? It must be going well, right?"

"Speaking of which, I am really thankful to God. This voyage was very smooth for us. Not only did we have no wind and waves along the way, but even a dozen black slaves died. If this happens every time, then I will really make a fortune. ." Although the "only ten or so dead" argument sounded absurd to Tangning, he knew it was true.

Because the slave trade, especially the black slave trade, had a very high mortality rate during the voyage, the Atlantic route to black slaves was a dead line. From West Africa to the Americas, black slaves endured six to ten weeks of hardship. First of all, slave ships were often overloaded. It is often seen in books that a 90-ton ship carried 390 slaves, or a 100-ton ship carried 414 slaves.

The space allocated to each slave on the ship was only 5.5 feet long and 16 inches wide. Negro slaves crowded one by one, like books lined up on a shelf. Every two slaves are locked side by side, right leg to left, right to left. The place where each slave lay was smaller than a coffin, and his activities were strictly restricted.

Secondly, black slaves lived in crowded cabins, the air was polluted, epidemics were rampant, coupled with poor diet and insufficient fresh water supply, resulting in frail and sickly. Many slaves contracted infectious diseases and were thrown into the sea and buried in the belly of fish. Therefore, as Sheffield said, only a dozen people died on this trip, which is indeed a rare success.

So Tangning smiled and said to Sheffield, "If that's the case, then you must have a lot of good stuff here, so don't fool me with those sick seedlings with crooked melons and cracked dates this time."

"Isn't that when the shipping was plagued with diseases and there was no way to do it, but this time you can rest assured that all the slaves are healthy and strong, let me tell you, this time I caught all good Good, these guys are said to be warriors in the tribe before, and they are all in good health, so you are satisfied." Sheffield said proudly.

PS: This beginning was actually written by me several years ago, and it is interesting to look at it now.