‘But without ownership, it takes the teeth out of it all.’ ‘Perhaps that’s for the best, though – freedmen do work better than slaves after all, and slavery is in fact more expensive than a free labour market—’
This entire conversation is giving me hives. To them it is a simple loss of capital and a debate on what labour produces the best outcomes. For the knewly freed enslaved Africans its life.
It's absolutely terrifying that this was genuinely how human lives were considered and it's even more horrifying that we are literally starting to repeat this history right now.
