The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why It Exists, and How It May Be ExtinguishedCarey, Henry Charles
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The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished
Carey, Henry Charles
Labor; Slave trade; Slavery; Slavery -- United States; Tariff -- United States; Working class
"In ten years repealed or reduced the duties on coffee, timber,
currants, wool, sugar, molasses, cotton wool, butter, cheese, silk
manufactures, tallow, spirits, copper ore, oil and sperm, and an
amazing number of other articles, which produced a small amount of
revenue, with respect to which it is not material, and would be
almost preposterous, that I should trouble the House in detail. It is
sufficient for me to observe this remarkable fact, that the reduction
of your customs duties from 1842 has been systematically continuous;
that in 1842 you struck off nearly £1,500,000 of revenue calculated
from the customs duties; that in 1843 you struck off £126,000; in
1844, £279,000; in 1845, upwards of £3,500,000; in 1846, upwards of
£1,150,000; in 1847, upwards of £343,000; in 1848, upwards of
£578,000; in 1849, upwards of £384,000; in 1850, upwards of £331,000;
and in 1851, upwards of £801,000--making an aggregate, in those ten
years, of nearly £9,000,000 sterling."
The reason of all this is, that the cultivator abroad is steadily
giving more raw produce for less cloth and iron. The more exclusively
the people of India can be forced to devote themselves to the raising
of cotton and sugar, the cheaper they will be, and the larger will be
the British revenue. The more the price of corn can be diminished, the
greater will be the flight to Texas, and the cheaper will be cotton,
but the larger will be the slave trade of America, India, and Ireland;
and thus it is that the prosperity of the owners of mills and furnaces
in England is always greatest when the people of the world are
becoming most enslaved.
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