“How ‘White Slaves’ and ‘Black Slaves’ Were Described in 1847 — Let’s Talk About It”

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[00:00:00]person who has property or capital must sell himself.

[00:00:04]Now, it was no color.

[00:00:07]It was any person or at least his services for whatever he could get or he will starve.

[00:00:16]He is entirely dependent on his neighbor for permission to procure sustenance. He is not allowed to cultivate any share of that soil which nature has freely given for the use of all and consequently can only live on such terms as he fit to consent to. Now, is the black slaves a more helpless independent being? Is greater advantages taken on the conditions of the black slaves than of the whites?

[00:00:47]And is the black slave in more pitiable conditions than the white one?

[00:00:53]The black slave is compelled to toil for the benefit of others. The white slave is also compared to toil for the benefit of others. And according to the abolitionists themselves, the labor of the white slave is 25% more profitable to the employer than that of the black.

[00:01:15]Which is saying that the white slave works 1/4 cheaper or receives 25% less of what he produces than the black slave.

[00:01:28]The family of the black slave is sometimes separated by force.

[00:01:32]Now, the family of the white slave is often compelled to separate and the children are frequently sent into factories and cities [clears throat] where their health and morals are too generally seriously injured or totally ruined.

[00:01:50]Now, the black slave cannot choose his master. The white slave, he is often thankful that he can have any master at all.

[00:02:00]The black female slave is sometimes compelled to submit to the licentious desires of the master.

[00:02:07]So, [clears throat] it is in regard to our own white sisters and daughters.

[00:02:15]Ain't that crazy?

[00:02:18]DO YOU SEE HOW THEY WORDED that though?

[00:02:20]Excuse me.

[00:02:21]>> Yeah.

[00:02:23]What you got to say, Mark? I I mean >> [laughter] >> They said the black woman slave freaky naked. They said she got little little titties and this.

[00:02:32]>> [laughter] >> Waist for the master, huh? Ain't that a >> [laughter] >> how they still put them in the same category, but one gets a little bit more Mhm. than the other one. Yeah.

[00:02:46]Y'all still the same.

[00:02:48]We still look at y'all below us.

[00:02:51]Yeah.

[00:02:51]But we going to give them just a little bit more over here.

[00:02:56]Yeah. Mhm.

[00:02:58]Decency.