Comments on: Malthusian Subsistence https://www.isegoria.net/2015/08/malthusian-subsistence/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 12 May 2026 23:05:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Jehu https://www.isegoria.net/2015/08/malthusian-subsistence/comment-page-1/#comment-2370745 Jehu Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:57:34 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38732#comment-2370745 Slaves in the American South — other than slaves working in sugarcane or rice plantations — probably experienced a higher effective standard of living than most Europeans in the same time period. They might well have been “taxed” less ,too — where in this case one defines “tax” as the fraction of their economic output not used to support the slaves themselves.

]]> By: Lu An Li https://www.isegoria.net/2015/08/malthusian-subsistence/comment-page-1/#comment-2370113 Lu An Li Mon, 24 Aug 2015 22:59:33 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38732#comment-2370113 “unlike the post-1807 slave population in the U.S. South, Greek and Roman slave populations did not reproduce in sufficient numbers to sustain their levels via natural increase.”

Nowhere else in the Western Hemisphere for that matter, other than that part of British North America that became the United States.

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