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To: Brad from Tennessee

What does a slave do who has just been set free.

Who feeds them? Must they work? Where do they live, find shelter, what do they do for money? How much education do they have?


4 posted on 06/01/2013 1:28:01 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Venturer

The same issues arose in the US after the Civil War.


6 posted on 06/01/2013 1:32:15 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Venturer

All excellent questions that our abolitionists should have asked.


7 posted on 06/01/2013 1:36:34 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Venturer

I just asked that same question. Might learn something if we watch this evolve.


8 posted on 06/01/2013 1:39:03 PM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: Venturer

The Democratic Party will register them all as Chicago voters and then sign them up for food stamps and EBT cards. Now they will be on the Progressive plantation. :-)


10 posted on 06/01/2013 1:40:22 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Venturer

Slaves have always worked - the difference will be that they’ll get paid.


17 posted on 06/01/2013 1:50:22 PM PDT by GOPJ (Swedes bring their cars..savages their flames..burning cars a metaphor. D. Greenfield)
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To: Venturer
Who feeds them? Must they work? Where do they live, find shelter, what do they do for money? How much education do they have?

You are committing common low-information error : Judging a geographically alien society by your own contemporary standards. That usual happens when commenting, scholarly or otherwise, about remote historical events, or remote geographic subcultures.
Context is everything.

Presumably, slaves have no income, save material minimum subsistence provided by th 'masters.' It is impossible to answer those questions. The one about education is particularly naïve in the cruelty inherent in the question.

Normally, the answers to those questions (in our sheltered universe) would center around the society at large, but in this instance, the society at large, absent the muslims would be only marginally different. Blacks have always enslaved other blacks as far a history can infer (ignoring the nuts who channel presumed totally disappeared written 'history' ironically centered around Timbuktu.)

36 posted on 06/01/2013 2:49:19 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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