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Stay out of my basement!

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Threads like these are why I frequent the Outpost.

 

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I would have a slave take care of my cat for me since this is my most difficult job

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My ancesters owned slaves. I only learned this recently. They showed up in the 1790 census in virginia as owning 9 slaves. Of course I think slavery is wrong and it was wrong for them to own slaves, but it makes me wonder why they thought it was okay and if they treated them well or not. Especially because they were scottish immigrants that came here most likely to escape persecution by the english because of their race.

I detest the thought of owning another human being. There were a few "benevilant" slave owners that purchased slaves to "save" them from bad slave owners. Even some free blacks purchased and owned slaves to "save" them. It would ease my mind some if I knew that my ancestors were one of these few, but there is no way to know.

 

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My family owned slaves as well.

They owned a plantation near Atlanta. It was destroyed by Sherman.

It broke my family financially, and resulted in them spreading out around the South East before settling mostly in Southern Georgia and North Florida.

It was deserved though.

Slavery is a terrible institution, and it is almost always brought to an end through terrible violence and bloodshed.

Nothing is free. Eventually the balance gets paid.

 

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That depends, would I be able to purchase white slaves?

 

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Keeping and raising slaves was was very expensive back in the day and the cost of each slave was very high. Its much more efficient now to use machines and wage slaves. Some wage slaves like illegal aliens are really exploited

Industrialization and the use of wage slaves in the North is what really doomed the institution of slavery there. This was happening in the South too but they didnt want to make the inevitable change

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Yossarian_42 posted:
That depends, would I be able to purchase white slaves?


duh, of course! white people are the "jack of all trades, master of none."
pretty much a solid investment for people who can't afford several specialized slaves.

 

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Do you know how much I could make if I didn't have to pay employees?

 

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These days I'm sure we'd have a tax break for slaves so they wouldn't be so expensive.

 

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Slaves slept in the barn with the other livestock... They were cheap. They ate the scraps likedogs do.

 

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ZartanAround posted:
Yossarian_42 posted:
That depends, would I be able to purchase white slaves?


duh, of course! white people are the "jack of all trades, master of none."
pretty much a solid investment for people who can't afford several specialized slaves.


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eodoll posted:
Slaves slept in the barn with the other livestock... They were cheap. They ate the scraps likedogs do.


They werent cheap. You had to house and feed them and provide all their needs even if it wasnt much. This is why so few southerners could afford to have so few. Most people in the South only had one or two slaves with the big plantations being the exception not the rule

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eodoll posted:
Slaves slept in the barn with the other livestock... They were cheap. They ate the scraps likedogs do.


Uh no slaves were massively expensive to buy and sell. Wage slaves are much cheaper because you can externalize a lot of the costs on society as a whole and when they get sick you can just fire them.

 

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Exactly. Wage slaves plus industrialization is way cheaper but like Yuki says society pays the cost.

The fact is if slavery was profitable it would probably still be legal. Slavery is still profitible in the sex industry unfortunately

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They were expensive to buy but not to maintain. The only people that had slaves were people with big farms that needed workers.

Id rather be a wage slave than a slave slave.

 

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Being a wage slave is better by far for sure. At least you get some choice in your life. Life for slaves in America was hell, pure hell. This nation was founded on hypocrisy and slavery.

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Yossarian_42 posted:
That depends, would I be able to purchase white slaves?


Any race or whatever

 

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eodoll posted:
They were expensive to buy but not to maintain. The only people that had slaves were people with big farms that needed workers.

Id rather be a wage slave than a slave slave.



Most people would.

That's why it works so well.

It is a better way, but make no mistake, should the dollar stop working the whip will return.

The system isn't designed for our benefit. It is designed to encourage our cooperation.

 

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