No, it isn't. Can a slaveowner buy one of our products for personal use? What about the governments of the slave provinces, or foreign countries, or the British Empire for that matter? Do we have to boycott companies that buy slave products? The banks that give slaveowners loans? The investors? The ships that transport the products? Retail stores? How many degrees of separation are we supposed to keep?
There's no ethical consumption under capitalism. The only way to not contribute to slavery at all would be to totally shut ourselves off from the rest of the world.
In order, no a slaveowner can't purchase if we know they are one. No slave provinces can't buy, least not if the govt owns slaves private. Foreign nations whose governments own slaves can't, you can't reasonably be expected to enforce beyond that. The crown can but that's because they're the boss and we can't refuse to sell to them period. Yes we boycott companies that directly interface with slavery, no we don't boycott beyond one degree of seperation because that's impossible to enforce. Yes Georgian companies boycott those banks that give loans for the purchase of slaves. Yes Georgian companies don't accept slaveowning investors. No they don't use slave transport. No they don't use slave shopkeeps.
There's a reason I said directly and it's one degree of separation and sometimes one more after that is at all actually enforceable. Anything further else is such an effort in investigation and litigation that we could devote the entire population of the state to comitting. And no, that doesn't need specification because it is a form of salutary neglect implemented simply by doing the most possible and the fact that there straight up cannot be better improvement further.
Yes it leaves rooms for georgians to file suits fucking over people on a degree further and this is good as it allows them to see government action and support. What you should do is put the word "to the greatest degree reasonably accomplishable" to prevent bullshit fraudulent suits by following a dumbshit money chain.
You're saying we are obligated to partake in slavery directly or directly in all but name, I'm saying we're under no obligation to do so. Yes, there will be a point at which the funds involved may touch slaveowner hands but I'll be damned if it's because we hand it right to them. There may well be no ethical consumption under capitalism but we can damn well try and at the very least we'll make our statement and by virtue of economics give at the least the barest of nudges against slavery and in terms of societal impact make a strong statement.
You also forget that this is for Georgia chartered companies. We're not talking about private firms here but firms made by and for the colony.
"shall be prohibited from any business dealings or investments involving slave labor or slave trading. so far as may be reasonably accomplished"
and if for some foresaken reason it ever becomes a real necessity to interface beyond a tertiary level with slavery it also provides the loophole for that and a means for Georgians to file so it doesn't get abused.
We've yet to kneel before the name of petty and unnecessary moderation yet, We should avoid starting here and now. We've managed well going full steam ahead let's go full steam farther.
