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> you had to make them yourself Well... not quite... > Up to fourteen young male slaves, aged ten to twenty-one, worked at the forges of the nailery. From 179
by tasha0663 5y ago
> you had to make them yourself
Well... not quite...
> Up to fourteen young male slaves, aged ten to twenty-one, worked at the forges of the nailery. From 1794 to 1796, while he was in temporary retirement at Monticello, Jefferson calculated the efficiency of the nailers, each day weighing their nail rod and the nails they produced.
(Source: https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/nailery https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/nai...)
Though it would seem the idea was to then sell the nails for extra income (TJ was always strapped for cash), so it's kind of an ugly stop on the way to "what if you could just go buy a bag of nails?"
- joe_the_user 5y agoYes, the thing about a plantation was that because the slaves were already purchased and their labor could be used for agriculture only part of the time, if you needed something, having a slave make it made a lot of economic sense. A lot of the large plantations had nearly everything made by hand, by a slave or group of slaves. And this impeded trade, manufacture and automation.
- Ancapistani 5y agoJefferson did in fact make a number of those workers as well.
- lasergrafitti 5y agoI won't sound offending, um anecdotic ^^ but, i remember Smith's ('men of iron') talking that: 'It hadn't been more than 5 hammerhits to cut a screw nut (of a fist-size)', so do you feel like 'batman' taling about 'sharped wire' done by servants? More objective... But you got me with this topic by 'someone on the internet saying', Natural price formation is the only socio-economic challenge? (-; regards