i was thinking maybe i could get a chicago school PhD under them in cliometrics/econometrics by actually doing the reperations analyses, and showing while some of the slave labor was unpaid, still it was low skill, and also if you add in the free accomodations in goree island and free trip across the atlantic, actuaslly they owed money. 'got 99 problems..'
--- On Thu, 7/16/09, Gar Lipow <the.typo.boy at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Gar Lipow <the.typo.boy at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Abolition as self-help
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 12:23 PM
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:43 AM,
> mart<media314159 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > some thought pro-slavery arguments weren't pc? oh my
> gawd. if they weren;t pc, then maybe they deserve the fate
> or larry summers.
> >
> > if i recall fogel and north, one of whom one a noble
> econ laureate, pointed out slaves actually had it pretty
> good, with respect to the non slave owning white class of
> the time (mostly moonshiners and nascar drivers, i assume)
> in terms of growing thier own food, saturday night parties
> etc . i did suspect this was written to counter
> reperations arguments of the time, which are still somewhat
> popular.
>
>
> Pretty much bullshit too. There was an old joke that
> was contemporary
> at the time of slavery. A slave runs, away is caught. The
> slave
> catcher says: "you know Jim, you had a pretty good master,
> enough
> food, a place to live, Saturday nights off. Why would run
> away?" And
> Jim replies: "You know, if you want it, my job's still
> open."
>
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