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“Getting it right this time”

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In the most recent issue of The Economist they reviewed Edward Baptist’s book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. The review ends on this amazing note:

Mr Baptist cites the testimony of a few slaves to support his view that these rises in productivity were achieved by pickers being driven to work ever harder by a system of “calibrated pain”.
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Slave owners surely had a vested interest in keeping their “hands” ever fitter and stronger to pick more cotton. Some of the rise in productivity could have come from better treatment. Unlike Mr Thomas, Mr Baptist has not written an objective history of slavery. Almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains. This is not history; it is advocacy.

Basically: The Economist is a good magazine if you’re an idiot fucking baby.

Almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains

it’s a book about slavery

yeah but also The Economist’s excuse for why some Slave Owners were “good” was because they wanted their “hands” (read: Slaves) to preform well. Basically, if you weren’t literally flogging your slaves then you were ok and not a villain (This good old “good slave owner” horse shit) because Economics.