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After Britain offered freedom to those slaves who joined the British army, a South Carolinian aide to Gen. George Washington suggested raising “an all-black regiment” of 3,000 enslaved African-Americans to help defend Charleston.

His memoir, “Turf Wars,” is a modern-day “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” except this Mr. Smith is a descendant of slaves who believes the NFL’s “plantation” system is a microcosm of America.

He has said before that he doesn't do dogma and is not a slave to any one system.

Critics, however, argued the term “slave” was used as a proxy for race.

The consequences for Native Americans, who lost their lands, and Black slaves, forced to labor on southern plantations, were disastrous.