David Brion Davis Quotes

Despite Widespread Attemps To Equate Human Captives With Domestic Animals And Even To Market Them And Price Them The Same Way < ... > Slaves Were Fortunately Never Held Long Enough In A Distinctive Group To Undergo Genetic Neoteny < ... >. Yet A Kind Of Neoteny Was Clearly The Goal Of Many Slaveholders, Even If They Lacked A Scientific Understanding Of How Domestication Changed The Nature And Behavior Of Animals. Aristotle's Ideal Of The "natural Slave" Was Very Close To What A Human Being Would Be Like If Subjected To A Genetic Change Similar To That Of Domesticated Plants And Animals.

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