The Hireling and the Slave, Chicora

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Excerpt from The Hireling and the Slave, Chicora: And Other PoemsThe sale of slaves is thought to be a great evil to the slave. But what is it substantially more than a transfer Of labor from one employer to another? Is this an evil to the laborer? Would it be considered an evil by the European hireling if the laws required every master, before he dismissed his workmen, to se cure to them another employer? Would it be an evil to the hireling to be certain Of Obtaining work - to be safe from the misery Of having no employer, no work, while he is starving for bread? The sale Of the slave is the form in which the laws secure the slave from this misery Of the hireling - secure to him a certainty Of employment and a certainty of subsistence. The hireling has neither.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.