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As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious menmen who, as Trevor Burnard sees it, lacked any better options for making money. In the contentious , Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic becauseto speak bluntlyit worked.