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In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us.

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.