▲ 49 r/nyt
Why would they do this 😭
I feel like someone was fucking around to make it look like they had gaps in their teeth and forgot to remove the black boxes. Husband thinks it’s a glitch. What do you think?
u/real-crackheadhours — 8 days ago
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▲ 4 r/AskHistorians
Did the plantation system actually "create" the South's massive bug and pest problem?
Before colonization, Native Americans grew a mix of different crops together. But during the plantation days, enslaved people cleared huge amounts of land to grow miles and miles of just one crop (like tobacco or cotton).
I know that warm winters are a massive contributing factor, but I’m more concerned about their origins that gave the momentum to reproduce faster than they were able to be killed.
Did these bugs basically look at these massive plantations as an all-you-can-eat buffet, multiply like crazy, and permanently change the ecosystem to what it is today?
What gave them the reproductive momentum that could outpace efforts to eradicate (or at least control the population) of them? If so, how were the Natives able to prevent this?
How much of the South's bug problem is just the warm weather, versus an environmental mess created during the plantation era?
u/real-crackheadhours — 8 days ago