How were disability arguments used to justify slavery?

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Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History" by Douglas C. Baynton


4. How were disability arguments used to justify slavery?

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There have been several arguments to justify the institution of slavery during the age of colonization. Several scholars proposed rational justification for inequalities based on race, ethnicity and gender. Supporters of racial inequality justified the slavery arguments by pointing out that Black people were intelligently and psychologically inferior to white people; thus, slavery is quite natural and rational. The disability arguments misguided society and were used against the abolitionists in the United States. 

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