Re: Wallerstein on slavery and capitalism

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx 10/20/00 11:15PM >>>

Yoshie didn't say this but quoted someone talking about Fogel and Engerman:

 Among their other
findings was that "the slave mortality rate in childbearing was lower
than the maternal death rate experienced by southern white women.

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CB: Sadly, ironically,  the slaveowners treated their chattel capital breeding 
more
carefully than their own, evidently. Means of production over moms. Who says 
they
weren't capitalists ?

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"32
Fogel and Engerman presented data to support the finding that "the
average daily diet of slaves was quite substantial" and that "the
energy value of their diet exceeded that of free men in 1879 by more
than 10%."33 Their reasoning was based on a comparison of the
nutritive value of sweet potatoes, a staple of the slave diet,
against that of white potatoes, a staple of the diet of the white
population.

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CB: They probably fed their cattle more than Northern men ate too. Their chattel
slaves were fed fuel, not food.