What are some good facts and questions about this debate?

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Genevieve

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We are currently debating in History about slavery. If it was a necessary evil or not. I am on the necessary side, and their is ten of us against ninetine to twenty one other kids against us.

I am having the hardest time getting the others to pay attention, when I finally do get some work in I have a hard time figuring everything out. We need questions to ask the other team for the debate tomorrow! And we need more information to fight back! Otherwise we are going to be slaughtered!

I would like you to give your argument for the side I am on. Why was slavery a necessary evil? And I would like some questions I could modify so we can use them!

We need a good question about Economy, we know that it will be our strong point. But we can't make a good question about it. Help us please?
 
When i read your question my first thought was that is was necessary only from an economist view, and i was pleased you mentioned it. And just for the record.

The Egyptians Romans,Greeks and NATIVE Africans treated their slaved fair. To them it was understood that they are a working force. Egyptians were born into it and were paid (with bread and beer, but to an excess for them to barter with). The African's practiced their own form of slavery when they were captured in battle they would work for their enemy.

It was only the western society that you hear massive amounts of horror stories. Other than that there were occasional abusive masters but about the same amount as abusive parents .

If you happen to get on the race topic, please note that president Lincoln offered all slaves after the war a trip back to their native land. To a new country created just for them in africa. That place is called Liberia. Every one that stayed choose to.

Now back to economics. In some societies, slavery existed as a legal institution or socio-economic system

In a nutshell slavery is a self balancing system and it is inversely related to land. For example. One observation is that slavery becomes more desirable for land owners when land is abundant but labour is not, so paid workers can demand high wages. If labour is abundant but land is scarce, then it becomes more costly for the land owners to have guards for the slaves than to employ paid workers who can only demand low wages due to the competition. Thus first slavery and then serfdom gradually decreases as the population grew.
 
When i read your question my first thought was that is was necessary only from an economist view, and i was pleased you mentioned it. And just for the record.

The Egyptians Romans,Greeks and NATIVE Africans treated their slaved fair. To them it was understood that they are a working force. Egyptians were born into it and were paid (with bread and beer, but to an excess for them to barter with). The African's practiced their own form of slavery when they were captured in battle they would work for their enemy.

It was only the western society that you hear massive amounts of horror stories. Other than that there were occasional abusive masters but about the same amount as abusive parents .

If you happen to get on the race topic, please note that president Lincoln offered all slaves after the war a trip back to their native land. To a new country created just for them in africa. That place is called Liberia. Every one that stayed choose to.

Now back to economics. In some societies, slavery existed as a legal institution or socio-economic system

In a nutshell slavery is a self balancing system and it is inversely related to land. For example. One observation is that slavery becomes more desirable for land owners when land is abundant but labour is not, so paid workers can demand high wages. If labour is abundant but land is scarce, then it becomes more costly for the land owners to have guards for the slaves than to employ paid workers who can only demand low wages due to the competition. Thus first slavery and then serfdom gradually decreases as the population grew.
 
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