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Status Freedom as Effective Control Self-Ownership

In: Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income

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  • Karl Widerquist

    (Georgetown University)

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What does it mean to be a free person? Consider an answer given by someone who experienced chattel slavery. Garrison Frazier was the spokesperson for a delegation of former slaves called “freedmen (although many were women) who met with General Sherman on January 12, 1865, before the end of the US Civil War.2 When asked what he understood by slavery, Frazier replied, “Slavery is, receiving by irresistible power the work of another man, and not by his consent. He defined freedom as, “taking us from under the yoke of bondage, and placing us where we could reap the fruit of our own labor [and] take care of ourselves. Asked how best to secure their freedom, Frazier said, “The way we can best take care of ourselves is to have land, and turn it and till it by our own labor.3

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  • Karl Widerquist, 2013. "Status Freedom as Effective Control Self-Ownership," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income, chapter 0, pages 25-50, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-1-137-31309-6_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137313096_3
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