It is commonly supposed that the road toward freedom lies through cheapening the products of slave labour; but the reader may readily satisfy himself that it is in that direction lies slavery.
Because the owner could combine all the economy and efficiency of a system of slave labour, with the partial advantages of the system of free labour near him; and thus make his farm more profitable than his Pennsylvanian neighbour.
On the inefficiency of slave labour, see also Storch, op.
Thus, whilst slavery grows up only under economic conditions favourable to slave labour, it is always limited by feelings of an altruistic character, and where these feelings are sufficiently broad and powerful it is not tolerated at all.
In an economic system based on slave labour or corvee, reproduction is enforced and regulated in all details by personal relations of domination.
A third notice was given by Mr. O'Connell, to the effect that any diminution of the duty on foreign sugar should be limited to that which was produced by free labour, and not extend in any way to the produce of slave labour.
That England, although mistress of India, was rendered year by year more dependent upon the United States for her supply of raw cotton and tobacco; both being the produce of slave labour.
They had a large command of slave labour, and would naturally employ it where the work to be done was exceptionally hard and disagreeable.
Footnote 1042: Kenrick thinks that the Carthaginians "introduced the practice of working the mines by slave labour" (Phoenicia, l.
The Romans and Carthaginians worked their mines almost wholly by slave labour; and very painful pictures are drawn of the sufferings undergone by the unhappy victims of a barbarous and wasteful system.
Yet it was a conflict which arose out of slave labour: an economic question.
The ultimate explanation of the higher cost of slave labouris the ultimate explanation of the difficulty of using political power for economic ends, of basing our economic security upon military predominance.
This, of course, is only the re-discovery of the old truth that forced or slave labour is more costly than paid labour.
The income of the poorer citizens is to come from the taxes and rents paid by foreigners, and from mines worked by slave labour; the necessary army of slaves has to be bought as a State investment.
These would be bent on the use of slave labour, and would take to the forms of production which gave them the best money return.
And I suspect that it is far more probable than otherwise, notwithstanding some of the strange theories of my honourable Colleague, that there never will again be in America a crop of cotton grown by slave labour.
Slave labour; dangers attending its employment; revolts of slaves in Italy.
The lack of intensity, which is a characteristic of slave labour, lessened the returns, while the secondary importance attached to the manuring of the fields was a vicious principle inherent in the agricultural precepts of the time.
At the time of the protest of Tiberius Gracchus against the dominance of slave labour in the fields scarcely two generations had elapsed since the great influx had begun.
Here and there, no doubt, we find traces of slave labour in factories, e.
As has been justly observed by Salvioli,[78] never at any period did the Roman proletariat complain of the competition of slave labour as detrimental to its own interests.
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