On the record
An old ox, worth eighty dollars, was doing, in New Bedford, what would have required fifteen thousand dollars worth of human bones and muscles to have performed in a southern port.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “An old ox, worth eighty dollars, was doing, in New Bedford, what would have required fifteen thousand dollars worth of…”
Editor's note · Context
This quote illustrates Douglass's point about the economic efficiency of free labor compared to the cost of enslaved labor in the South.
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