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Thank you for your answers, and sorry for the confusion. I agree with you about everything but english is not my native language and I thought I misunderstood something in the show. thanks again :)

No problem, Anon! No – you’re not misunderstanding, although I think an awful lot of people must be. I’m happy to nerd at you any time about the whole thing – I just tend to get a bit worked up because the idea of that place is enough to make my blood boil. Glad we agree!

(2)I do agree on working conditions being terrible back on those days, but not in this particular farm. You can argue that Silver is a terrible human being, but for other reasons other than “Flint will have a bad time in the farm”

Friend – we’re going to disagree on this, because the prisoners are being forced to harvest sugar cane. I’ve done other posts about this, but I’ll say it again for emphasis – sugar cane farming is horrible work for anyone. It doesn’t matter if someone’s doing it voluntarily or not – sugar can harvesting at this time especially was deadly. There is a reason that white men stopped using other white men there as indentured servants to do that work and started enslaving Africans, and the reason is that too many of those indentured servants were dropping like flies in the process of trying to do as their masters bade them. If the farm wanted to make enough profit to be a plausible cover, someone was doing enough work to make it viable, and that someone was the prisoners. I’m sorry, but as much as I too would like to believe that Thomas was being treated well, the truth is that I really, really don’t think he was or that James would be. 

As to my other reasons for feeling Silver’s actions are unforgivable – yes, there are lots of other good reasons to be very angry at him without ever once mentioning what he did to his best friend in all the world. Let’s talk about what he did to the woman he professed to love, since it’s her appreciation week this week!

I found this comment about the farm on a forum :”The farm’s business is NOT growing and selling stuff, that’s just a cover. It is actually supported on the money the workers’ families pay. So lowering production costs and growing more vegetables is irrelevant to the farm owners; they don’t need to exploit the workers.” I am perplexed,,,,what do you think about it?

Uh. huh. Sure. I’ll be over here, wondering how in the flying blue fuck anyone doesn’t get that it doesn’t matter what Oglethorpe states his mission to be, his actions make him a fucking slaver. 

Oglethorpe is making money off of keeping his workers there. That much is absolutely true. He is getting paid by these people’s families to take them off their hands, and what we see in the show seems to imply that it’s a one-time transaction. Money changes hands, men are brought to the place against their will – and then they… what, according to this person? Just randomly volunteer to, what, help Mr. Magnanimous Oglethorpe to bring in his crops? They just willingly pick up tools they’ve never before had to touch or even consider in their lives? Give themselves blisters and do back-breaking work out of the goodness of their noble, privileged, wealthy hearts? That’s why there are guards with guns and cudgels watching the field, because they’re there voluntarily? 

Bullshit, Anon. Oglethorpe is making those men work, and he’s doing it with the specific intent of making money off their labor which they will never see any of. I don’t give two shits what Oglethorpe tells himself at night so he can sleep in his feather bed while the men on his farm presumably lie down on straw mattresses or blankets – he’s a goddamn slaver in that he brings men to his farm against their wills, forces them to work, and has no intention of ever letting them leave. I don’t care what portion of his profits come from the farm itself, even if it’s fucking miniscule, and I guarantee you that it’s not, because, newsflash, rich men don’t ever, ever, ever give up any profit they can possibly make. Slavery is slavery is goddamn slavery. I’m honestly kind of sickened at the argument presented, because they’re essentially going “the prisoners aren’t making Oglethorpe much profit so therefore it’s not slavery.” Um… excuse me? Just…. 

No. Absolutely no. Fuck this argument and fuck the person who made it.

Everyone Has A Tarot Card That Matches Their Personality — Here’s Yours

flintstille:

wolfofantimonyoccultism:

I thought it was fun, I got the hermit.

lmfao, I got Death

The Hermit:

You’re an introspective person who’s content with their own company. But even though you’re introverted, you’re not a loner. People often seek you out for advice or even good conversation because you’re thoughtful and analytical, and you’re happy to help them out — in small doses.

Everyone Has A Tarot Card That Matches Their Personality — Here’s Yours