To Start slavery in any form is immoral and needs to be abolished from every corner of the globe.
I am asking this because I heard somewhere that a big factor for the banning of slavery in these industrialized areas of the world (I.e Britain and the Northern US) was motivated by profits because it was better on profits to have paid workers rather than slaves.
That could also be 100% wrong but if it is true then wouldn’t slave labor bring more profit than a paid worker?
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It doesn’t.
That’s why we have the prison industrial complex. That’s why our clothes are made with slave labor. Our Chocolate and coffee are harvested with slave labor. The immigrant field workers all over America are barely distinguishable from enslaved people
What you heard is feel good propaganda. A lot of people fought against slavery just because free workers can never.compete in a market with enslaved workers.
People could not get jobs, because enslaved people were doing those jobs for free/cheaper. This was a major topic of arguments and fights in Congress before the civil war in America.
You can learn more by searching “free soil free labor” movement.
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