nit Your econ is off

Post #407,826 by boxley 1/29/16 9:33:39 PM 1/29/16 9:33:39 PM Reply	nit Your econ is off They could be sold at a very high profit, because they were all produced entirely by the labor of slaves. slaves were by no means free. I looked at the books kept by president Andrew Jackson. His hermitage was slave poor. Taxes on personal property (slaves were taxed), cost of buying a slave would hire 20 whites for a year. It was a sunk cost that they could find no way of economic recovery from the system. Thats why it would have been better to purchase the freedom and avoid a war. always look out for number one and don't step in number two
Post #407,827 by Andrew Grygus 1/29/16 10:03:18 PM 1/29/16 10:03:18 PM Reply	If it was so cheap to hire workers . . . . . then why did production of Carolina Rice end with the end of slavery? Besides, once you got a few slaves they were self replicating, and the surplus could be sold off (you say for the amount of 20 white men's labor for a year for each one). And, of course, there was the "Fancy Trade", selling young black women as sex slaves, at a nice price. Hard to give that up, no? And, if slaves were so expensive, exactly how could they all be bought and released? Maybe Salvation Army bell ringers could raise the money? In any case, the southern slave owners would see that was a very short term pay off, that would be as severe a long term destruction of their economy as emancipation was. And besides, the South was raring for a fight. They expected the war to be very short, and to be victorious over the "Servent Race". I question your economics.
Post #407,829 by a6l6e6x 1/29/16 10:13:02 PM 1/29/16 10:13:02 PM Reply	Re: once you got a few slaves they were self replicating The slave owners were more than helpful with the replicating! Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #407,841 by mmoffitt 1/30/16 11:36:09 AM 1/30/16 11:36:09 AM Reply	And that made the US VERY different from Brazil.
Post #407,844 by Andrew Grygus 1/30/16 4:55:22 PM 1/30/16 4:55:22 PM Reply	Yes, in Bahia they have African Culture. In the United States we have "Black Culture". There's pretty much no resemblance between the two.

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