Excerpt from Wages or the Whip: An Essay on the Comparative Cost and Productiveness of Free and Slave Labour Thus far, we have confined our attention to the illustra tion of the general principle, that slave labour is dearer than free labour; dearer in its prime cost, dearer from its inferior productiveness, and dearer from the waste and bad economy to which it uniformly leads, as well as from its cost to the State. This View of the economical Objections against slavery has been admirably illustrated by a popular female ...
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Excerpt from Wages or the Whip: An Essay on the Comparative Cost and Productiveness of Free and Slave Labour Thus far, we have confined our attention to the illustra tion of the general principle, that slave labour is dearer than free labour; dearer in its prime cost, dearer from its inferior productiveness, and dearer from the waste and bad economy to which it uniformly leads, as well as from its cost to the State. This View of the economical Objections against slavery has been admirably illustrated by a popular female Writer, Miss Martineau, in her Tale of Demerara. In the summary of principles appended to that Tale, the leading points are thus succinctly stated. Where the labourer is not held as capital, the capitalist pays for labour only. Where the labourer is held as capital, the capitalist not only pays a much higher price for an equal quantity of labour, but also for waste, negligence, and theft on the part of the labourer. Capital is thus sunk, which ought to be reproduced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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