E. Slaves have a positive price because the owner gets to keep the difference between the competitive market wage and the cost of upkeep. B. However, this does not mean that slave-owners will care about risks their slaves face as much as free laborers. Particularly if a slave-owner is wealthy, he may be very willing to gamble the life of a single slave if the expected return is good. We should accordingly expect that slave-owners who rent their slaves for dangerous work will get higher than usual rates to compensate them for their risk of loss. The additional rate will be less than the amount needed to induce free workers to take such risks.
Free workers have to be paid more to accept such conditions.
Slaves will be somewhat more likely to do physically dangerous work than free laborers. Slaves will be much more likely to do safe but unpleasant work than free laborers. Under certain conditions, yes. H. Then profit-maximizing slave hunters are likely to make a conscious choice to transport a larger number of slaves with a lower chance of survival. The preceding model of slavery provides deep insight into slavery, but it is probably a bit too simple.