McGrath of Harlow said, in part:


But whereas in many places a slave is just that, a fellow human being who for various reasons has become obliged to work for someone else in a master slave relationship - in the American system they were regarded as essentially less than human. A more degrading situation for both parties.

McGrath, why do you think that (bad as it indubitably was) was peculiar to the American system? Or to put it differently, why do you think that aspect was absent from every other slave system in the world in history?

Dave Oesterreich