On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
In a southern port twenty or thirty hands would be employed to do what five or six men, with the help of one ox, would do at the wharf in New Bedford.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “In a southern port twenty or thirty hands would be employed to do what five or six men, with the help of one ox, would…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass provides a concrete example demonstrating the stark difference in efficiency between free labor in the North and slave labor in the South.
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