Henry George: 'On Slavery and Slavery"

 Click on the link below to access the scanned chapter from Henry George's Social Problems (1883). Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), sold millions of copies worldwide:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18oes3MPs_RGqIFRvcxN7_fOeJweUEXq7/view?usp=sharing

"People do not argue with the teachings of Henry George; they simply do not know it. He who becomes acquainted with it cannot but agree."
Count Leo Tolstoy

"Men like Henry George are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form and fervent love of justice. Every line is written as if for our generation."
Albert Einstein

 Prepare answers to the following questions for oral presentation in class:

a) Why is chattel slavery (a human being is the personal  property of the slaveowner) no longer profitable in a developed society, and why does it naturally disappear with economic development?

b) Why is "property of the land instead of the person" more profitable now?

c) What is the "inconvenience" of owning a slave?

d) Using your own words, how does George define 'slavery'?

e) How do hierarchies naturally grow in 'free' and enslaved societies?

f) How and why does the private appropriation of land become a problem?

g) In your own words, how does George justify this statement? (p.159):

"Of the two systems of slavery, I think there can be no doubt that upon the same moral level, that which makes property of person is more humane than that which results from making private property of land."