"-natural right? Yet this would not be justified on the score of their moral guilt, but that the good of society required or would be promoted by it." Later on: "Man is born to subjection. Not only during infancy is he dependent, and under the control of others; at all ages...
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"The colored prostitute is, in fact, a far less contaminated and depraved being." "Under these circumstances, with imperfect knowledge, tempted by the strongest of human passions... can it be matter of surprise that [colored women] should so often yield to the temptation?"
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This particular one is surprising to me. I had heard vaguely of racist stereotypes of black women as sexually depraved but this makes it seem super real.
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"But I do not hesitate to say, that the intercourse which takes place with enslaved females, is less depraving in its effects, than when it is carried on with females of their own " ??? ok I was trying to maintain empathy for the author but it's getting seriously harder
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I'm gonna stop reading now, but this was super interesting. Most of his arguments rely on inconsistency - he points out all the ways in which abolitionists are hypocritical. He also relies a lot on how sometimes bad things are necessary and inevitable.
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