“The overseer’s whip is now fully supplanted by the lash of hunger! And the auction block by the chain-gang and convict cell” PovertyRacismSlaveryPrisonHungerSouthern United StatesSouthern UsaBlack Codes Author:Lucy Parsons
“are you not slaves to the money power as much as were the black slaves to the Southern slaveholders? Then we ask you again: What are you going to do about it? You had the ballot then. Could you have voted away black slavery? You know you could not because the slaveholders would not hear of such a thing for the same reason you can’t vote yourselves out of wage-slavery.” MoneyPowerSlaveryVotingVoting RightsWage Slavery Author:Lucy Parsons
“How many of the wage class, as a class, are there who can avoid obeying the commands of the master (employing) class, as a class? Not many, are there? Then are you not slaves to the money power as much as were the black slaves to the Southern slaveholders? Then we ask you again: What are you going to do about it? You had the ballot then. Could you have voted away black slavery? You know you could not because the slaveholders would not hear of such a thing for the same reason you can’t vote yourselves out of wage-slavery.” SlaveryWage Slavery Author:Lucy Parsons
