For all its faults, what are the benefits of slavery?
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MisterKnowItAll
ANSWERS: 19
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Allows most non slaves a life without work.
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Not having to do any work. Living for free. It would be great if instead of slavery, we had robotic people who do everything for us.
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Well, no benefits to slavery. It was not a good thing. But, the slaves brought to the American colonies were already slaves. They were taken prisoners of war by enemy tribes and taken to the Gold coast to be sold at the market by the Arab slave traders. The British, Spanish, and Portuguese brought them to the Carribean. They were sold again to colonial plantation owners. The scene of white "slave catchers" taking black people from their home country as in "Roots" was pure nonsense. Alex Haley knew this, but he wrote it anyway and allowed it to be scened in the TV movie of his fictional book. Blacks sold other blacks into slavery, and the Arabs were the middle-men. This is fact and history. Many do not like fact or history, today, so they re-invent it to suit themselves. Little high schoolers have no clue, so they believe whatever the films say. Any film must be more truthful than anything a teacher or textbook might say...right? (lol)
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The slaves were at least not murdered by the enemy tribes who captured them. They were sold into slavery to the Arabs instead of being killed on the spot. They did survive.
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Well, there were loads of benefits for the slave owners. Not so many for the slave.... no let me re-word that, no benefits for the slave.
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I cannot look at the link you posted at work...it's blocked. As for the benefits of slavery: The only benefits of slavery are the same as for ANY means by which work is accomplished: it is an institution by which work may be performed much easier for those in charge. This includes the actual physical labor involved, as well as the economic reasons (feeding, caring, clothing, etc. for the slave population). As a cheap source of easily trainable manual labor, for many societies throughout human history it has been a viable medium of accomplishing work. Virtually eveery corner of the world has been touched by slavery in every culture. Chinese, African, Egyptian, Anglo-Saxon, Roman, Native Americans, Central and South Americans. However, as an institution slavery is full of indigities. And with the increasing industrialization of humanity, slavery has become very uneconomical as a means of labor reducing and revenue producing means. Thankfully.
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Slavery has a lot of benefits. First women have slaves for any kind of housework.And women have slaves for any kind of personal needs and amusement. So women just have much more free time for themselves. Men would only have to manage their slaves and any kind of corporal work is done by slaves, including all types of personal services. The slaves work for their mistresses and masters without any pay and so their owners can have a convenient life without any corporal work. But the disadvantage is that slaves only can be used for rather simple jobs and toyday many duties are better done by machines. And if modern women and men would like to have around them all the time humble slaves who would watch each step of their mastes and mistresse, I do not know. In a house where you have slaves, I think there is not much intimacy. But for certain purposes I think slaves would still be very useful even today and make the life of their owner much more comfortable.
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none worth discussing. there are 27 million slaves in the world today, but their economic impact is minimal. we could free every single slave tomorrow and not see an impact on the world market - chocolate producers would not suffer and we would not see a sudden shortage of cotton. we would, however, see a brief reduction in warfare as child soldiers are returned home to their families. many brothels would be emptied out as millions of women and children regain the rights to their own bodies. "Until all of us are free, none of us are free."
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Slavery did not mean only benefits to mistresses and masters. I would say that it is rather unfair to see only the benefits of slaveholders. Extremely apart from all so-called free workers a slave had a much better status as most of free workers. Falling sick a slave had food, boarding and even medical care while a so-called "free" worker got nothing at all when he fell sick and could not work. For the slave-owners a slave was percious property and so slave-owners were interested that their slaves were in good health and well fed. Sick and badly fed slaves could not work for their owners. So, I would say that most slaves had a much better life as many so-called free labourers in most european countries. I can not stand any more that prejudice that slave-owners were basically bad people. And there is an immense literature of women from the old South who were slave-owners and you see everywhere that they made a lot of thoughts about their slaves. None of them seems to me cruel or perverted.
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If you would reintroduce slavery this would not at all mean that black people could become slaves. But first of all you would need enough people who would like to own slaves. Today an employee is for sure much cheaper as a slave because an employee you can fire if you do not need him anymore while a slave you have to keep, feed and board if you have work for him or not. So for an enterprise an employee is much far cheaper than any slave.
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400 plus years of free hard labor why you think america is so great now
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the benefits of slavery would be that for any game that uses an experience system/ grinding levels I could use slaves to level up all my characters while I go out and have lots of sex, or if I feel like it have sex with my slaves. Slavery can work if the slave wants to be a slave and gets off on it, treat them with respect and kindness and they'll do anything you want.
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i have a shirt that has that :) but free labor is power.
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I would think that the "benefits of slavery" are about as bountiful as the benefits of abortion and on the same scale of evil. Almost identical in the evil effects on the practisers. Slave labor wasn't free and according to the book "The Political Economy of Slavery" that I read in college..not very efficient either..how hard would you work as a slave? The myth that slave labor somehow helped America develope an economy is a poor and nonsensical one at best. The south had a poor economy in general and was outstripped by the north where they paid people to work.
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ethnic diversity, though it seems cruel the slaves that survived the trip were the strongest and in the best physical shape.
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nif
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maybe oppression dont exist in america it certainly does in all the 3rd world countries especially in the black nation, these countries are being rip off for their resources because their governments are sell outs.
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Also MKIA: race is still a factor in injustice. Africans don't consider themselves one group. It is still one group slaughtering another because of cultural or perceived differences. Rwanda: Hutu and Tutsi; Darfur: Muslims and Non-Muslims; Afghanistan: Pashtun/Sunni and Hazara/Shia. Even back during slavery, the kidnappers attacked people of different tribes than their own.
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None. flat out none.
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