“Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.”
Source: The Human Use of Human Beings (1950), p. 162
“The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.”
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Eric Wolf
(1923–1999) American anthropologist
Source: Europe and the People Without History, 1982, Chapter 12 The New Laborers, p. 356.
“Slaving gave rise to a division of labor”
Eric Wolf
(1923–1999) American anthropologist
Source: Europe and the People Without History, 1982, Chapter 7, The Slave Trade, p. 229.
Context: Slaving gave rise to a division of labor in which the business of capture, maintenance, and overland transport of slaves was in African hands, while Europeans took charge of transoceanic transport, the "seasoning" or breaking in of slaves, and their eventual distribution.
Harry V. Jaffa
(1918–2015) American historian and collegiate professor
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), Rebuttal
“…richness of heart of the poor people [and to despise] the poverty of heart of the rich.”
Baba Amte
(1914–2008) Indian freedom fighter, social worker
Baba Amte: A Vision of New India
“In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.”
Oscar Wilde
(1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.”
James Madison
(1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
Letter to Edmund Randolph (26 July 1785) https://books.google.com/books?id=zkRKqnxjbAoC&pg=PA199&dq=%22liberate+and+make+soldiers+at+once+of%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC4Q6AEwA2oVChMIyeyr5cPRxwIVDDU-Ch2IxQjN#v=onepage&q=%22liberate%20and%20make%20soldiers%20at%20once%20of%22&f=false
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Harry V. Jaffa
(1918–2015) American historian and collegiate professor
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Source: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 7, “Of Commerce, Capital, Myths, and Missions” (p. 147)
Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, Book VII : Indica, as translated by Edgar Iliff Robson (1929), p. 335