Genovese

[LeoCasey at aol.com]

Yoshie wrote:
<< Slave owners could _do without_ the consent of slaves, because the federal 
& other governments were on their side.  Local majorities of slaves meant 
nothing, when the governments supported by the hegemonic bloc of slave 
owners, capitalists, non-slave-owning whites, etc. could be counted upon to 
enforce the laws that kept blacks enslaved (& returned them to owners if they 
ran away). >>

Nonsense. Above all else, slave owners needed to have slaves labor with 
sufficient effort and skill to make the farm/plantation survive, if not 
actually thrive, as an unit of production. Indeed, one of the primary forms 
of resistance, in the American context, was sabotage in the field of work.

Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who 
want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and 
lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --