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- From: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Slagle)
- Subject: Re: child labor and minimum wage.
- Message-ID: <SLAGLE.93Jan27095147@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Reply-To: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com
- In-reply-to: mrh@centerline.com's message of 25 Jan 1993 17:26:46 GMT
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- Organization: You wouldn't ask this if you'd seen my desk.
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 09:51:47
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- In article <1k17smINN25d@armory.centerline.com>, mrh@centerline.com (Mike Huben) writes:
-
- > Please name one case where the US government said "you must now
- > own this slave" or "you've never been a slave before, but you
- > are one now."
-
- The US government made people slaves by denying them their full
- rights as citizens under the Constitution.
-
- > Slavery has always been initiated by capitalists.
-
- Mercantilists maybe, particularly in the ante bellum South, who
- railed against the Yankee capitalists who were attempting to
- destroy their way of life. Perhaps you should take your own
- advice and read a little history.
-
- > I suspect that TJ [Thomas Jefferson] could have freed his
- > slaves somehow; if only by selling them for a pittance to an
- > abolitionist. I suspect that he didn't to retain his
- > credibility while attempting to legislate their freedom.
- > Howvere these are mere guesses. I'd like to see the actual
- > covenant.
-
- Why don't you try reading what Jefferson wrote on the subject,
- as I have already recommended, instead of parading your uninformed
- suspicions about. He has answers for all your questions, and some
- you probably haven't had a glimmer of yet.
-
- =Mark
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