That is not what the footnoted VERIFIABLE section you deleted was The very term wage slavery originates from the comparison of wage labor with chattel slavery The section quotes relevant sources and the comparisons put forth by the very originators of the term as well as quotes from people who disagreed with it such as The description of wage workers as wage slaves was not without controversy Many abolitionists in the U S including northern capitalists regarded the analogy to be spurious 29 They believed that wage workers were neither wronged nor oppressed 30 The abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass declared Now I am my own master when he took a paying job 31 Furthermore you LK and other critics already took months editing that very section in the past Your sudden reaction of deleting such a huge section seems to have questionable motivations 99 2 224 110