The Brown Book

Undated

Overview

Wagner describes slave ownership as an extreme expression of the conqueror's brutality. He contrasts this acute violence with the slower deterioration of subordinated classes in older societies.

Content

Undated:

Negro-slave-owners etc. as extreme consequence of the conqueror’s becoming far more savage than the animals, — against which, in the older countries, the consequences of the stratified subjugation periods revealed themselves more chronically than acutely, as decay of the lower strata.