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compare white american males economic status during slavery

2006-11-15 05:13:34 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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You need to read Walter Williams book, "More Freedom means less government".

He list several examples of Slaves that were entrepreneurs. One such slave rented himself out a night to business people in the area. Bought him self out of slavery and moved North. He set up a business selling and delivering coal. He was so successful his white competitors tried to put him out of business by under cutting his prices and selling coal at below their cost.

He countered the attempt by hiring light skinned mixed race people to buy the coal from his competitors and deliver it to his customers.

He has several other good examples where people that were slaves managed to succeed through their own efforts to become successful business people even though their starting position as slaves would have made most people think it was impossible.

2006-11-15 05:27:17 · answer #1 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 0 0

Just off the top of my head. I have read that in many instances slaves had to feed themselves beyond some meagre rations. They had plots which they could cultivate and sometimes they had surplus that they could sell. Many slaves were able to buy their freedom by saving capital in this way.

2006-11-15 05:45:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

by way of fact the white adult males took great thing on the topic of the quantity of administration that they had over the black women people, and used them as intercourse products and had intercourse with them willy nilly. many of the adult males have been catholics, and birth control is frowned upon interior the Catholic faith. additionally birth control replaced into no longer effortless to acquire and replaced into uncommon, subsequently many women folk people grew to grow to be pregnant by way of quantity of adult males having intercourse with all those women people.

2016-12-14 07:44:59 · answer #3 · answered by zell 4 · 0 0

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