Oh yes, they thought that to treat human beings like livestock was backward and doomed and obsolete and unscientific and fatally inefficient, but if any of them thought it was indefensibly cruel and morally intolerable, they show no awareness by the evidence of this book.
Slavery
Book Review: “Accounting for Slavery” — Plantation Roots of Scientific Management
In this valuable study, Caitlin Rosenthal isolates an assortment of business practices and technologies that reflect the sophistication of New World plantation economies — dispelling myths of their romantic crudeness.
Book Review: “New England Bound” — Slavery and the Puritans
It is not surprising that Wendy Warren strains to find words to “comprehend the rank tragedy that resulted from enslavement.”