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Originally Posted by Diesel911
If you consider Communism to have enslaved the People to the State then there were industrial Slaves.
I have read that here in the USA White Laborers did not want Slavery because they did not want to compete with Slaves in the Work Force so they supported freeing the Slaves. But, that did not mean the accepted them as being Human Beings on the same level as them and they did not want Blacks to have the same equality and rights as they did.
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I do not consider communism at all related to slavery. I think that is propaganda.
If your second supposition were true, then we would be talking about the industrialized South overwhelming the teeming labor markets of the Northeast.
Under the French and Spanish slavery system, slaves could earn money, own property, and buy their way to manumission. They had great incentive to be industrious and work hard.
Under the model American slave system (South Carolina's, later adopted by all other slave states to some degree and forced upon Louisiana for entry into the Union) slaves could not own property, could not earn money and could not be manumitted except under extraordinary circumstance. Thus, the slaves had no incentive to work or innovate other than coercion.
Because they had no positive reinforcement in law or fact, they were not as productive as whites and thus began the perception that black people are lazy and dumb. Under those circumstances I am sure I'd be dumb and lazy, too. And would probably have ended my short, miserable life hanged in some damned tree.