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suited for harsh labor"? The argument for enslaving Africans has been that they were better suited for the harsh and demanding work of the fields seeing that they were used to hot and humid climates. Native-Americans were initially used as slaves. History tells us that Native-Americans did not make very good field hands, because they could not endure the demands of such work and they often ran away into the interior of unsettled areas or back to their own tribe. The obvious solution for increasing free labor would have been to allow slaves to let nature take its course, thereby insuring that the gene pool would not have been weaken by race mixing. That answer is at best weak. My response is in the context of the rhetoric used to justify slavery as an institution in that period.