There is Nothing Wrong with Black Slavery from Planck's Constant

'America' an idealized image of slavery (1841)
Photo by: manchestergalleries

In this fabulous photo we see the great American system of slavery. Here we have an attractive and wealthy, slave-owning white family. In the background: a group of happy slaves dancing. The old slave says, "God Bless you massa! you feed and clothe us. When we are sick you nurse us, and when too old to work, you provide for us!" The master vows piously, "These poor creatures are a sacred legacy from my ancestors and while a dollar is left me, nothing shall be spared to increase their comfort and happiness."

That's right: There is Nothing Wrong with Slavery. Consider the fact that a plantation owner has to spend a large portion of his cotton revenues on feeding, clothing, shelter and even medical care of his slaves ¹. Shouldn't slaves therefore feel some debt of gratitude that he takes care of all their necessities of life? I know what you are thinking: that just because a slave owner spends some of the money he makes on their labor does not make his actions any less evil.

Before you start thinking sulphurous thoughts about me, I'm joking. It happens that my brain is just fuming over something I just read that reminds me how much slave ownership is just like a government run by Liberals. Read what Liberal idiot Dave Johnson wrote today:

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Now, most people really don't pay much in taxes, but have been led to believe they do. And most people don't understand that government spending is spent on them.

Oh well, now I get it: the government can confiscate almost all of my money because in reality it spends it on the collective me. Me as in all Americans. So if Democrats take 90% of my million dollars and re-distribute it to 900,000 Americans in the form of aid such as food stamps, unearned income credits, housing subsidies, medical care, I shouldn't complain that my taxes are too high because the government is really spending the money on us.

Only one problem; as much as I am an American I just don't feel the 'us' part in the equation. There's 900 thousand dollars less in my bank account but I didn't get back 900 grand in food stamps, unearned income credits, housing subsidies, or medical care; in fact I got zilch back. I feel like I was just mugged and the crook told me I was not really being robbed because we are all Americans and he was going to make sure my money would be spent on us, on all of us.

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University of Virginia, The Carmichaels and the Health Care of Slaves
If the home remedies did not yield positive results, the Carmichael letters demonstrate that slaveholders either sent their slaves to the Carmichael office with notes explaining their complaints or summoned physicians to their plantations to treat their ill slaves. Slave owners often wrote the Carmichaels for the most urgent needs. A slave woman facing complications during labor was one of the more common reasons to obtain the Carmichael’s services. In 1824 Thomas Seddon wrote, “I have a Negroe Woman on my Plantation in Labour She Requires your aid. Will you Ride out this morning & See her If you cannot go yourself send Edward. I Just Recd a note from my overseer who Says it is an Urgent Perhaps a Calcutta Case.” [see letter] The Carmichaels treated male slaves for ailments that the slaveholder worried would affect the slave’s ability to work. F. S. Stoel sent his slave Israel to the Carmichaels pleading for medicine to cure him quickly as Israel was his “best hand to the Plow and I am about to seed Wheat, and am now loosing by his improvidence.” [see letter] John Clark, possibly overseeing slaves hired to work on constructing the Chatham bridge, wrote the Carmichaels about examining Ned, a slave whose fingers were dangerously frostbitten. Clark hoped Ned could be cured without amputating his fingers because “his work upon the bridge is a considerable loss.” [see letter]