Jefferson's Pillow
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 18 12:43:33 CDT 2002
><< 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.
This sounds like a plausible explanation to me. The prime motive was money.
Racism therefore justified both the slave trade and the owning of slaves
as a means to acheive that money.
David Morris
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