[muawiyah]

You want to compare relative income levels, do that with slaves in the American South vs. Free labor in the North. There are several books out that do exactly that. Plantation life turns out better on the material wellbeing scale ~ but there was no freedom.

I, myself, prefer freedom even if I have to live in holes in the ground and steal garbage from the alien elite who might be invited in by the Democrats to take over.

[heye2monn]

That is very interesting — northern standard of income for free black labor lower than for southern slaves. I did not know that.

I agree with you on the idea of freedom. But it’s still amazing that so few ex-slaves were willing to move to Africa (Liberia). Remarkably, the ex-slaves did not want to leave the supposedly evil racist America.

Obviously our country was never that bad of a place all along.