Jefferson's Pillow

[James Kyllo]

From: jbor

> No, I'd argue pretty strenuously that the institution of slavery, whatever
> its economic expediencies, was also built upon the thoroughly racist
notion
> that Africans were lesser humans than white people, and thus expendable.


But "the institution of slavery" was going strong long before the North
American slave trade, and was by no means predicated on white slavers and
black slaves

Isn't the bottom line 'power' rather than race?

best

James