WHEN WHITE FOLK ASUAGE THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN THAT ‘IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME’ THEY KNEW EVEN BACK THEN

WHEN WHITE FOLK ASUAGE THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN THAT ‘IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME’ THEY KNEW EVEN BACK THEN


As the French political theorist Montesquieu observed wryly in 1748:

“It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures [enslaved Africans] to be men; because allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow that we ourselves are not christians.”