I Have a Few Questions

[Thomas Thorne]

If slavery was a superior labor system,why can we find so few if any free men who volunteered to become slaves in history?

The worst factory owner had to worry about his employees being lured away by other employers offering better terms of employment. Workers could move to other parts of the same country and migrate to other lands. The stunningly large overseas migration of European peoples in the 19th century is evidence of a mobility denied to slaves. No employer had the legal right to separate his free employees from their families. Free workers took advantage of the growing 19th century tendency to expand political rights such as suffrage to an ever larger population.

We are aware of the likes of George Fitzhugh who believed that slavery was a superior labor system to free market capitalism. Now Fitzhugh never ran for dogcatcher. His idea that 95% of the population ion had a natural and inalienable right to be slaves would not have endeared him to a mass White male electorate.

Can you imagine a bizarro world Confederate Presidential election where the only 2 candidates were George Fitzhugh and Abraham Lincoln? Lincoln would have won. I bet no one has done an alternate history with this concept.
Tom