"black slaves in the South had a higher living standard in nutrition, housing, leisure times, medical care, and old age security than did the Northern factory workers." I'm not familiar with the Fogel book, but there are hundreds of other accounts that emphasize the same point. Also there is a wealth of evidence that even in south there was an illegal barter system where poor whites would trade alcohol to slaves for food because the slaves often had more food,
I don't write this to support the slave system, but to emphasize slavery is not just chattelization.
Slavery has not ended...today most people work for someone else and when someone else profits from another's labor that is the definition of slavery.
P.S. It is also untrue all southern slaves were unpaid. Skilled slaves almost always earned a portion of their labor; most generally houseslaves were paid something to maintain loyalty and to give them an opportunity to buy trinkets when going into town. Some plantations even gave the field slaves small bits of money at Christmas or birthdays.
And of course we all know that slaves could save up and buy their freedom although that began to end as some of these ex-slaves who bought their freedom began to encourage or lead rebellions. Again, I don't write this to support the concept of slavery but to encourage people to examine exactly what the nature of slavery is.
One thing your article brings home is that the war to end slavery actually encouraged the Northern slavers to increase servitude throughout the country.
Reconstruction
The second Civil War
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40 acres and a mule after several years those were taken away by Johnson
KEEP PREACHING IT SISTER!!! My goodness yours is a voice desperately needing to be heard
Thank you, Greg!
Absolutely
Thank you, Don!
"black slaves in the South had a higher living standard in nutrition, housing, leisure times, medical care, and old age security than did the Northern factory workers." I'm not familiar with the Fogel book, but there are hundreds of other accounts that emphasize the same point. Also there is a wealth of evidence that even in south there was an illegal barter system where poor whites would trade alcohol to slaves for food because the slaves often had more food,
I don't write this to support the slave system, but to emphasize slavery is not just chattelization.
Slavery has not ended...today most people work for someone else and when someone else profits from another's labor that is the definition of slavery.
P.S. It is also untrue all southern slaves were unpaid. Skilled slaves almost always earned a portion of their labor; most generally houseslaves were paid something to maintain loyalty and to give them an opportunity to buy trinkets when going into town. Some plantations even gave the field slaves small bits of money at Christmas or birthdays.
And of course we all know that slaves could save up and buy their freedom although that began to end as some of these ex-slaves who bought their freedom began to encourage or lead rebellions. Again, I don't write this to support the concept of slavery but to encourage people to examine exactly what the nature of slavery is.
One thing your article brings home is that the war to end slavery actually encouraged the Northern slavers to increase servitude throughout the country.