[PEN-L:7299] Re: Re: Re: Liquidated damages for slavery

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How convenient for the descendent beneficiaries of the slaveowners. Yes, this would require an extraordinary legal step of compensating the descendants of the slaves. This can be done by extrapolation of legal principles and common sense.


Charles Brown

>>> "Rod Hay" <rodhay@xxxxxxxxxxx> 05/27/99 12:34AM >>>
And add to that the slave traders in west Africa and the consumers of
British cotton goods around the world, etc., etc., But of course there are
no former slaves still alive to collect.


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Charles Brown"

The physical location of capital , especially fictional capital , is an
interesting question. The surpluses from the South also went to England, so
maybe the payback should be international in this global economy.

The big bourgeoisie who were and are resident in the South, the former
slaveowners and the rich people since the Civil War , may have had material
means of production destroyed, but it is not clear to me that they were
expropriated of all of their wealth in the other forms of capital, other
than the labor/means of production they owned as slaves. Not all of their
land was taken from them. Slaves did not get the forty acres and a mule, as
promised.

Charles Brown








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