The Progress of Slavery in the United States volume 1
The Progress of Slavery in the United States volume 1
George M George Melville Weston
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01 South Carolina, says : " If the income of every plantation of the Southern • States were permanently reduced one-half, or much • more than that, it would not take one jot from the • support and comforts of the slaves. And this can • never be materially altered, until they shall become 1 so unprofitable that slavery must oi necessity be ; abandoned. " 134 This view of the subject, that the support and comforts of the slaves are always kept at the mini- mum consistent with their vigor and avai...lability, and are not reduced with diminished incomes, be- cause incapable of reduction without abandoning the system altogether; effectually disposes of the suggestions, that they would be any worse off, if confined to old States and old plantations, or would be any better off, by transfer to new regions. It shows that the law of the interest of the master, forever forbidding their rise above the condition necessary to their profitable use, follows them whithersoever they are carried. But, although ac- curate to this extent, and so far as he goes, Chan- cellor Harper fails to notice, that while the support and comforts of the slave are not susceptible of material diminution ; the severity of his labor is and must be augmented precisely in proportion to the profit which the master makes out of it.
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