Actually, I was referring to beasyiality. For either his “nigress” was a human—held as a slave—or she was less than human. In his words, likened to a “pet.”
So, he is either not a true American who believes in all people being created equal, as someone advocating that holding a person as a slave is proof of their inferiority.
Or he f**ks his pets.
I don’t really even need to know, for his hand would be unclean were he to offer it upon meeting.
I go for abomination either way.
I actually did get your point.
Americans, with their (professed, anyway) belief in human equality have a particularly difficult ideological problem with justifying slavery.
If you don’t believe all men are created equal, then you can have an infinite spectrum of human rankings, from high to low, with the difference between adjacent ranks minimal.
If you do believe in human equality and own slaves, then you must either reject equality or decide your slaves are not in some sense human.