Cockburn on slavery

[Brad De Long]

>Dear James,
>
>Yeah, wasn't it great!  One change of clothes a year.  A shack to live 
>in---the animal barns were better.  Oh yeah!  When your not busy working 
>for the "massa" you get to grow your own food.

And, as Stan Engermann calculated, adult male diets of 5,000 calories a 
day! 5,000 calories a day!

Do you have any idea how hard you have to *work* to burn up 5,000 calories 
a day?

Brad DeLong