Excerpt from Wages or the Whip: An Essay on the Comparative Cost and Productiveness of Free and Slave Labour

Sea? Unless this can be Shewn to be precluded by some physical impossibility, some local cause of mysterious force, sufficient to counteract the natural elasticity of the mind relieved from the pressure of the iron yoke, nothing, to use the words of the American Professor, will justify slave la bour in point of economy.

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