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WingsOfGood posted...

as seen in the op thanks to a.i, , they may rest on these days

must we make up fiction because it breaks the mold of what we were told? interesting that we weren't told they only worked 3 days a week is it not?

You are being needlessly defensive and making assumptions about responses. You're acting like people are defending some conspiracy. Also, maybe your public education was trash, but this was something they taught in my grade school, at least to an extent.

They also did no "work" during the cold season, living off of what was saved up and stored. That being said, just surviving was a lot more work than what we do now. Whether or not they were paid depends on what service they provided to whom, but most were just sharecroppers. Their "pay" was whatever they grew, minus whatever they owed in taxes.

I get that having less work is appealing, and there are other arguments to be made for that, but the argument that sharecroppers didn't have as many hours as we do just doesn't hold up.