Caroline Winterer

Gosh, that's not very old because many layers underneath, we're finding the first animals that were in North America.

There's the huge first mammals like the Brontotherium and other crazy huge mammals of the era that was called the Miocene.

But even underneath those, my goodness, we're finding brontosaurus, tyrannosaurus rex.

You know, they give these mega muscular names to these animals and say, well, these were here before the Indians, and we are finding them.

So they are ours, and the land is ours, and the native peoples really have no claim, and they also don't understand deep time.

So we can safely...

Take this land from them.

So that's the argument that they make.

That's exactly right.

As white Americans move into the lands that we call the Cotton South, so Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, in the decades after 1800, they have to encounter the question, how do we get this soil to be

fertile.

So again, they start digging, and they uncover this very rich layer of what is called the Cretaceous.

It just means chalky, right?

It's very rich in minerals.

And they say, aha, this is a great fertile place on which to build cotton plantations.

And it must mean that long ago, God prepared

the southern states of America for chattel slavery, because there used to be an ancient ocean here, which we're finding in the Cretaceous, where we find these giant sea monsters, and they're amazing.

But now they've all formed this very rich layer of soil on which we can

create cotton plantations.

And it's obvious that God would not have created this soil if he did not want us to use black people to work that soil.