The Diamond as big as the Ritz, revisited

So, if I remember correctly, we don't actually have to write a blog over break, so this is totally not a serious "for points" blog (if we do actually have to write a blog over break then yes this totally my blog this week). Instead, I'm going to write down some thoughts that I regret not actually writing down because they are actually quite interesting. Keep in mind that this is just me making some questionable but interesting connections, and as much as I regret not actually writing this, I know I would never do so for fear of writing down something so implausible that it would be laughed at.

Remember "The Diamond as big as the Ritz"? I wrote about how finding a literal diamond of that sort could have no good results. However, that was under the assumption that the diamond was indeed a literal diamond. Now, I would like to suggest that, though it existed, it did so in a different form. The diamond existed in the form of slaves. In fact, the whole story is a crack at slavery.

Most of the comforts the whole family enjoys exist because of the endless labor of many, many slaves. And to the South, the slaves represented the manpower needed to pull their agricultural profits. Basically, the money (or rather potential) in the slaves that the South exploited is equivalent to a cubic mile's worth of diamond.

Think about it this way. The whole diamond is underground in a mine that is certainly not visible from an airplane. However, the family's mansion (a symbol of their opulence courtesy of the slaves) is. To protect their source of wealth, the family shoots down every plane in sight. In short, the family destroys even the slightest threat of a threat. The practice of suppressing or attacking abolitionists (the people capable of shedding light on the South's cruel practices and thus the equivalent of the airplane pilots) was certainly a popular one down in the South. In fact, in 1856, a certain representative Preston Brooks attacked senator Charles Sumner with a cane. For this, he received widespread acclaim in the South.

"We consider the act good in conception, better in execution, and best of all in consequences. These vulgar abolitionists in the Senate must be lashed into submission."
-The Richmond Enquirer

Take what you will of this idea, but I always felt like it was a good one. Anyway, now I finally let it out.