On the Subject of Slavery

From the April 15th Globe and Mail.

According to Professor James McPherson, cotton yields in the South doubled every decade from 1800 to 1860 and accounted for 60% of US exports. (Since the South didn't have much shipping, most cotton went overseas on northern ships.)

Southerners considered their slavery morally superior to the "wage slavery" in e North's factories.

Actually, slavery was not only immoral, but highly inefficient. Adam Smith wrote that a slave "can have no interest but to eat as much and labour as little as possible.

The promise of upward mobility fuelled hard work in the North. The slave had no such promise in their system.

A Sad Part of US History. --Old B-Runner