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[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Were the Virginia planters keeping sex slaves capitalists though? Most of the capitalists at the time were up north where slavery was illegal by the founding.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Doesn't living in luxury while building wealth on the labor of others count as capitalism?

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 points 25 minutes ago

No, that could be feudalism or lots of things

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Not by itself, agrarian slavery is different from industrial wage labor under private owners.