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Market Price of Slaves (1863)
- onetimemanytime 6y agonot posted as bait or anything, am watching "Free State of Jones" and searched out of curiosity. After all, it happened.
- 082349872349872 6y agoIt is amazing to read pro-slavery arguments of the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23629102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23629102 (Don't mess with property rights or you'll wind up communist! With hindsight, we can see the slope was not as slippery as claimed.)¨ Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8A9Y1Dq_cQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8A9Y1Dq_cQ