Report, if you have a problem with this page“ For Southerners, a white skin was the distinguishing badge of mind and intellect. Black skin was the sign that a given people had been providentially designed to serve as menial laborers, as what Hammond called the “mudsill” class necessary to support every society. ”
David Brion Davis
From : Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
