On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Charles Brown wrote:
> I think one of the main problems
> for slavery in capitalism is that
> slaves are not paid, so they don't
> have any money to buy the
> commodities produced in a
> capitalist system.
Still, plantation slaves subsisted largely on commodities--meal and salt pork bought on the market, albeit by the planter. This has always struck me as a point in favor of those who would argue that new world slavery was a disguised form of capitalism.
Tom
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