Note 1 — Chapter III · • The Dream of a Greek Democracy

The same argument was made use of by northern supporters of slavery. Gordon Bennett’s New York Herald, for example, “printed a description of slum life in Liverpool, remarking that compared with the English laborer, ‘the slave lived like a prince.’ He had his cabin, neat, clean, and weather-proof: he had his own garden patch, over which he was lord paramount; he was well fed, well lodged, well clothed, and rarely over-worked; sleek, happy, contented, enjoying his many holidays with gusto, he lived to a great age” (quoted in Allan Nevins, The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism, p. 271).