After arriving in America to forge a life of honest, hard work and toil, many of these colonists realized they couldnāt be arsed, so they stole people from Africa and made them do it instead. You might think these were precisely the people Rousseau had been talking about when he said mankind needed to throw off their chains. But they werenāt. Like many humanists, heād found a clever loophole. By not thinking of slaves as human, he was free to not give a shit.




















