Historically, they burned the people infected with it(to death if not already dead)
Your shoe store. You sell the exact same pair of boots but you sell them for a cheaper price. Most likely a customer would eat up a deal like that.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stowe Sojourner Truth
It had tariffs it could use to help it get more money.
Answer:
Most African Americans were sharecroppers after the civil war.
This was a system in which the landowner would allow them work a
piece of land and give them some of the crop produced.