THOMAS SOWELL

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by Morley Evans

THE REAL HISTORY of SLAVERY

Thomas Sowell reads his dissertation on slavery. This could be the most thorough examination of slavery that you will ever hear. Slavery is an institution that has been a feature of human societies for as long as human societies have existed. Professor Sowell takes us to the beginning of mankind — fasten your seat belt; it's a bumpy ride.

Slavery occurs when more powerful people enslave less powerful people. It has nothing to do with race. People enslave their neighbours because their neighbours are handy, and the cost to do so is low. For example, Europeans enslaved other Europeans, and Africans enslaved other Africans. People could enslave other people on different continents and transport them across oceans only when that became possible.

The existence of middle-class society and its morality is new — having emerged in late eighteenth-century Europe. The middle-class may not be permanent, as it is constantly threatened by people who would use their power to move people downward on the social scale.

Serfdom and slavery could return. You could be rowing a galley ship or picking cotton. More likely today, you could be cancelled from the herd if the powerful don't want you. The world's richest people think there are too many humans. CONTROL is more important to some people than money or sex. CONTROL is POWER. The super-rich wants nice little herds to play with. You are an ant in Bill Gates' little ant farm. You are expendable. You should take this threat very personally.