(May 4, 2015 at 11:11 pm)robvalue Wrote: As an example, if I was born earlier when slavery was prevalent, I hope I would be against it rather than go with the flow.
And you would have been. Lots of people thought slavery was despicable. It was not a beloved institution in the USA, but it had political backing from the plantation owners who made money off it. Of course full equality was a different beast; opponents of slavery often wanted white to remain superior to black under a non-slave apartheid system.
