The Brutality of Slavery

Tags: Interventionism, Legal System, U.S. History

11/14/2018 Murray N. Rothbard

In a slave system, threats of brutality underlay the whole relationship.

Narrated by Floy Lilley. This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1, Chapter 6, “The Social Structure of Virginia: Bondservants and Slaves”.

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