This quote by George Mason talks to the power characteristics of slavery and the way it affects the labor of those enslaved. Mason is suggesting that when labor is performed by servants, it is seen as less valuable and is often disliked by the poor. This is since the labor of servants is not viewed as having the same value as the labor of those who are not oppressed. The quote implies that the bad know the injustice of slavery and the method it decreases the value of the labor of those oppressed. It likewise implies that the poor know the power dynamics of slavery and the method it affects their own labor. Mason's quote talks to the power of slavery and the method it affects the labor of those shackled and the labor of the bad. It is a tip of the oppression of slavery and the way it cheapens the labor of those shackled.
This quote is written / told by George Mason between December 11, 1725 and October 7, 1792. He/she was a famous Statesman from USA.
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"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it"