Lafayette had a powerful insight, detecting in slaveholders a combination of “prejudices, Habits, and Calculations.”26 This combination acted as their engine, in place of a conscience. Racism ratified their power, as did the dispensations of Providence. They were precursors of the Ayn Rand protagonist of the twentieth century.
-Henry Wiencek
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