Then you quote Samuel Cartwright “conjuring up creatively compelling excuses” for slavery, and never argue against the quotation.
Do you mean this quote?
Gurwinder cites exactly such an example with the 19th century physician Samuel A. Cartwright:
A strong believer in slavery, he used his learning to avoid the clear and simple realization that slaves who tried to escape didn’t want to be slaves, and instead diagnosed them as suffering from a mental disorder he called drapetomania, which could be remedied by “whipping the devil” out of them. It’s an explanation so idiotic only an intellectual could think of it.
That’s someone criticizing Cartwright’s practice of coming up with such excuses, so having the quote is already an argument against Cartwright (and thus slavery). Arguing against the quotation would be arguing for slavery and oppression.
Do you mean this quote?
That’s someone criticizing Cartwright’s practice of coming up with such excuses, so having the quote is already an argument against Cartwright (and thus slavery). Arguing against the quotation would be arguing for slavery and oppression.
Ack, I misread that, sorry. Will edit the grandparent comment to remove that part.