It might be Jefferson. Jefferson trafficked humans, ran breeding plantations, he almost certainly committed infanticides on his plantations, he even kept a slave girl as his personal … He tried to outlaw the Atlantic slave trade to increase demand for slaves from domestic breeding programs like his.

What do you think? Who was worse?

  • davel@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Infanticides… Chattel slavery’s social reproduction is its most abominable aspect.