Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after the American Revolution that he could make 257 dollars on every (black slave) in a year, and spend...
An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.
Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.
In his book The African Slave Trade, Basil Davidson contrasts law and in the Congo in the early 16th century with law in Portugal and England. In those European countries, where the idea of private pr...