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"For 10% of your time, you’re enslaved; for 10% of your time, you own slaves."

Huh, how is this possible? Didn't slave-owners often have multiple slaves? Shouldn't it mean the % of time enslaved should be larger than the % of time owning slaves?

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Did Lay make any attempt to end slavery via non-extra means before resorting to the strategy of being extra?

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Holy shit this is making me want to read the book way more than Scott's review of it.

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