If I had to support the law that we had to make Negro slaves, this is what I would say The peoples of Europe have exterminated those of America, they had to put them into slavery in Africa, to use it to clear so much land.
Sugar would be too expensive if it did work at the plant that produced by slaves.
These creatures are black from head to foot, and they have smashed the nose if it is almost impossible to complain.
You can not get into the spirit that God is a being very wise, has placed a soul, especially good in an all black body.
It is so natural to think that it is the color that is the essence of humanity, that the peoples of Asia, which are eunuchs, always deprive the blacks of their resemblance to us in a more marked.
can judge the color of the skin by the hair, which among the Egyptians, the best philosophers in the world, was of such importance that they were dying all the red men who fell into their hands .
proof that Negroes have no common sense is that they are more cases of a necklace of glass than gold, which, among civilized nations, is of such great consequence .
It is impossible that we assumed that these people are men, because, if we suppose men would begin to believe that we are not ourselves Christians.
Small minds exaggerate too much injustice is being done to Africans. For if it was so they say, would it not come into the head of the princes of Europe, which are agreements between them as useless, to make a general in favor of mercy and pity?
Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws, Book XV, Chapter 5
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