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Yea, the country would be a little different today, wouldn't it? No ugly legacy of slavery, and not still dealing with the fallout of having a permanent underclass in America.
The south didn't invade others---the NOrth invaded the South.The South were Terrorists
They deserve what they got
Poor white wage earners up north led miserable lives and often starved....black slaves on the plantation had everything provided for them....good healthy food, clothes, housing and medical care....had many children and lived to ripe old ages......because the slaves were very valuable and plantation owners being good businessmen understood the necessity of taking good care of their valuable property.
On the other hand white wage earners up north were worked to death, suffered constant hunger and nearly froze and often did in the cold northern winters.
These manufacturing jobs where poor whites worked were repetitious and hazardous. And from their meager earnings, Northern laborers had to pay for every one of life's necessities.
Theiy led miserable unhealthy lives and died young.
This continued up till the thirties when unions such as the UAW were organized and led finally to what is now known as the middle class.
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Similarities of wage work with slavery
Critics of wage work have drawn several similarities between wage work and slavery:
- Since the chattel slave is property, his value to an owner is in some ways higher than that of a worker who may quit, be fired or replaced. The chattel slave's owner has made a greater investment in terms of the money paid for the slave. For this reason, in times of recession chattel slaves could not be fired like wage laborers. A "wage slave" could also be harmed at no (or less) cost. American chattel-slaves in the 19th century had improved their standard of living from the 18th century[25] and – according to historians Fogel and Engerman – plantation records show that slaves worked less, were better fed and whipped only occasionally – their material conditions in the 19th century being "better than what was typically available to free urban laborers at the time".[26] This was partially due to slave psychological strategies under an economic system different from capitalist wage-slavery. According to Mark Michael Smith of the Economic History Society, "although intrusive and oppressive, paternalism, the way masters employed it, and the methods slaves used to manipulate it, rendered slaveholders' attempts to institute capitalistic work regimens on their plantation ineffective and so allowed slaves to carve out a degree of autonomy".[38]
- Unlike a chattel slave, a wage laborer can (barring unemployment or lack of job offers) choose between employers, but those employers usually constitute a minority of owners in the population for which the wage laborer must work while attempts to implement workers' control on employers' businesses may be considered an act of theft or insubordination and thus be met with violence, imprisonment or other legal and social measures. The wage laborer's starkest choice is to work for an employer or to face poverty or starvation. If a chattel slave refuses to work, a number of punishments are also available; from beatings to food deprivation – although economically rational slave-owners practiced positive reinforcement to achieve best results and before losing their investment by killing an expensive slave.[39][40]
- Historically, the range of occupations and status positions held by chattel slaves has been nearly as broad as that held by free persons, indicating some similarities between chattel slavery and wage slavery as well.[41]
- Like chattel slavery, wage slavery does not stem from some immutable "human nature", but represents a "specific response to material and historical conditions.
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Now that you know what the enslaved did with their freedom aren't you the least bit sorry they got it?Freedom?
They had 3.5 million enslaved
What about their freedom?
The South were TerroristsThe south didn't invade others---the NOrth invaded the South.
Your right the democrats sure did, and today have a lot more than that enslaved and they don't even know it.Freedom?
They had 3.5 million enslaved
What about their freedom?
They were enslaved long before the Democratic Party was formedYour right the democrats sure did, and today have a lot more than that enslaved and they don't even know it.
That don't change anything with what I said.They were enslaved long before the Democratic Party was formed