The experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to cost only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of anv. A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat... The Classical Journal - Página 191829Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1827 - 624 páginas
...cultivation would " afford it." After observing (book iii. chap. -2), " The experience of all ag«8, I believe, demonstrates, that the work done by slaves, though it appears to cost only his maintenance, is, in the end, the dearest of any ; " he says, " the pride of man makes him love... | |
| 1829 - 398 páginas
...Smith,3 that in the manufactures carried on by slaves, more labor must generally have been employed lo execute the same quantity of work than in those carried...only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of anv." A person who can acquire no properly, can have no other interest but to eat as much and to labor... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - 1843 - 598 páginas
...great proprietors, they are least of all to be expected when they employ slaves for their workmen. The experience of all ages and nations, I believe,...A person who can acquire no property, can have no interest but to eat as much, and to labor as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what... | |
| Calvin Colton - 1848 - 556 páginas
...The experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that work done by slaves, though h appears to cost only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any." — •" The planting of sugar and tobacco £tl»at of cotton in America was not then known] can afford... | |
| 1856 - 680 páginas
...work done by free men comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves." And again (page 159) " the experience of all ages and nations, I believe,...done by slaves, though it appears to cost only their * As when he atteinpted to account for the assumed non-inventiveness of slaves, he says, (page 284,... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - 1857 - 348 páginas
...great proprietors, they are least of all to be expected when they employ slaves for their workmen. The experience of all ages and nations, I believe,...though it appears to cost only their maintenance, in in the end the dearest of any. A person who can acquire no property, can have no interest but to... | |
| Adam Smith - 1869 - 576 páginas
...great proprietors, they are least of all to be expected when they employ slaves for their workmen. The experience of all ages and nations, I believe,...demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it 1 In historical times, io those illus- that suggested by the text. The facts, tnttcd by abundant contemporary... | |
| Adam Smith - 1884 - 604 páginas
...proprietors, they are least of all to be expected when they employ slaves for their workmen. The experience ol all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it apprais to cost only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any. A person who can acquire... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1889 - 308 páginas
...could not have been very great in that State, and before making this statement he had demonstrated " that the work done by slaves, though it appears to...their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any kind of labor." The principle to which the great philosopher of modern times attempted to reduce all... | |
| Colonial Society of Massachusetts - 1904 - 628 páginas
...and practicallj' impossible when brought into 1 Cairnes, Slave Power (Second edition), p. 143. * " The experience of all ages and nations, I believe,...their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any " (Wealth of Nations, i. 391). direct competition with free labor. Negroes were found throughout New... | |
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