Jefferson's Pillow

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< forgive me but i'm not sure i understand your point; self-loathing
from whom? >>

I'm elaborating on Paul Mackin's point.  I'm suggesting that keeping slaves 
was contemptible to those who did it leading to self-loathing on the part of 
the slave owners.  Rather than own it, the loathing was sublimated and 
transferred back onto the slaves.  Slavery thus the cause of racism and not 
the reverse.

All just speculation.