The Advantages of Child Labour

“Late difficulties in the sugar trade have excited attention to our sugar trees, and it seems fully believed by judicious persons, that we cannot supply our own demand, but make for exportation.I will send you a sample of it if I can find conveyence without posessing it through the expensive one of the post. What a blessing to subsitiute a sugar which requires only the labour of children, for that which it is said renders the slavery of the blacks necessary”

Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Benjamin Vaughan, June 27th, 1790

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Derry chambers Says:
19 March, 2011 at 2:14 pm

That girl looks like no slave I’ve ever seen. She seems to be having a ball.

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Abby Says:
20 March, 2011 at 5:18 am

And we’re still wishing we could find conveyance without possessing it through the expensive one of the post.

Wherever did you find that awesome (and awful) quote??

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