Exactly what does "slavery" mean in this economy? Exactly how is being a slave different than being poor? Seems to me that a free person owns and controls all the output of his life's energy and a slave has the product of his life's energy taken from him off the top before can claim what's left. Is a slave only a person who is "legally" owned by another person?
You all know that black slaves were tried in northern factories but they didn't work out (pun intended) because of weather and the business cycle. It was expensive to maintain human property during a New England winter. The human property could not grow their food, make their own clothing and shelter.
Human property in the north were like horses. You gots to feed a horse even when he is parked. The human property owners had to feed their property even when there were no contracts for the factories. The factory owners realized it was MUCH cheaper to hire free whites and lay them off when business was slow.
Say after the 1776 war that the slaves were freed and laws passed to prevent them from owing real estate and stating that only the children of two citizens could be born citizens. Would there have been a shortage of cheap labor? I think not.
Say the southern planters had used tax money to import slaves and turn them loose. What would have been the result? Would they not have had to work for the planters at cheap wages?
There were white as well as black share croppers, yes? What is the difference between a share cropper and a slave? Yes, the share cropper can marry whom he chooses, go to church, and own guns. How does his freedom turn him into a land owner if he has to pay half his life's energy to the land owner?
The "free" working class didn't make any progress until they organized into unions. Now days the working class thinks it is to smart to need a union which is why the middle class is shrinking and soon we will be "free" serfs.
You all know that black slaves were tried in northern factories but they didn't work out (pun intended) because of weather and the business cycle. It was expensive to maintain human property during a New England winter. The human property could not grow their food, make their own clothing and shelter.
Human property in the north were like horses. You gots to feed a horse even when he is parked. The human property owners had to feed their property even when there were no contracts for the factories. The factory owners realized it was MUCH cheaper to hire free whites and lay them off when business was slow.
Say after the 1776 war that the slaves were freed and laws passed to prevent them from owing real estate and stating that only the children of two citizens could be born citizens. Would there have been a shortage of cheap labor? I think not.
Say the southern planters had used tax money to import slaves and turn them loose. What would have been the result? Would they not have had to work for the planters at cheap wages?
There were white as well as black share croppers, yes? What is the difference between a share cropper and a slave? Yes, the share cropper can marry whom he chooses, go to church, and own guns. How does his freedom turn him into a land owner if he has to pay half his life's energy to the land owner?
The "free" working class didn't make any progress until they organized into unions. Now days the working class thinks it is to smart to need a union which is why the middle class is shrinking and soon we will be "free" serfs.
