//. . . but instead it carries excuses in place of reason. “Every type of excuse has been to justify the enslavement of African Peoples”. Jefferies explained how White Americans have excuses instead of reasons to justify the cause of forced migration and many other brutal punishments. The excuses consist of slave masters convincing American slaves that slavery is good for Africans; slavery is a part of the European “civilizing mission” of savage, and the myth that Africans were “cursed” by God and were divinely ordained to serve whites. This issue affects American slaves psychologically because it exemplifies a stage of naturalistic observation. //
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