I’m not disagreeing with you. They were slaves. They had no choice. They received no pay.
Yes, payments were made, but not to the slaves.
He is alleged to be a man of wealth, he is demonstrably a man of poor taste.
I do hope you realize that “a man of wealth and taste” is the self-description of Satan in “Sympathy for the Devil”.
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I’m not sure where you’re getting that silly interpretation, it’s clearly Jagger’s autobiography. You can’t believe Jesus would have allowed Satan to hang around with him, it was Jagger who was there.
OH HELLS yeah. I was just rolling with your Stones “Sympathy for the Devil” joke. Please don’t think I meant that sincerely…ARGH
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Do you happen to have a top 5 you would recommend?
“Those slaves were spared the humiliation of Obamacare, too” Bill added.
Depends on what aspect of the institution of slavery you are most interested in.
My top pick is “Without Consent or Contract” by Fogel. This largely supersedes his earlier “Time on the Cross” and puts the institution of slavery as a powerful economic institution that was in no way dying in its proper context.
If you are interested in showing that slavery was in fact the cause of the Civil War then “Apostles of Disunion” is the book, which destroys the claim that secession was not really about protecting slavery. I did not list above, I left off most of my more specifically Civil War related books which is a whole 'nother shelf of books. Also “The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination” goes well with this, it shows that the South - far from being oppressed by the North - actually dominated national politics, it was the prospect of losing that domination that precipitated secession.
“The Fall of the House of Dixie” is a very illuminating study of what happened in the South during the Civil War and reveals the high degree of self-deception of slave-holders, and how unpopular secession really was in the South. Most people do not appreciate the fact that secession was an act the slave-holding elite that held almost every seat in the legislatures of the slave states, and that the Confederacy ran out of volunteers in less than a year, resorting to conscription a year ahead of the Union.
“Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made” is the best account of slave society.
I’ll have to think about recommending a Davis work. Though a renown scholar I find most of his books going off on odd (though erudite) journeys through the material.
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Every time I think I’ve heard the stupidest thing he could possibly say, something like this happens.
Thank you, added those to my list. Greatly appreciate you taking the time.
Not to disagree with the rest of what you say, but I don’t think this is a last “2-3 years” thing. Heck, I remember Conservatives bitching about PC when I was in middle school and that would have been in the late 90’s.
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