Did all humans originate in Africa?

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Show me where. The justification for Black slavery was that they were heathens not that they were Black.

There are numerous texts written by some of the greatest enlightenment thinkers that say that blacks must be inherently inferior than whites because of their skin color. That is, they are heathens because they are black, and therefore slavery is acceptable.

@David Hume

I am apt to suspect the negroes to be naturally inferior to whites. There scarcely ever was a civilized nation of that complexion, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation.

@Immanual Kant

‘in short, this fellow was quite black from head to foot, a clear proof that he was stupid.’

@Thomas Jefferson

The first difference which strikes us is that of colour. Whether the black of the negro resides in the reticular membrane between the skin and scarf-skin, or in the scarf-skin itself; whether it proceeds from the colour of the blood, the colour of the bile, or from that of some other secretion, the difference is fixed in nature, and is as real as if its seat and cause were better known to us. And is this difference of no importance? Is it not the foundation of a greater or less share of beauty in the two races…Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior…But never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never see even an elementary trait of painting or sculpture.

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<p>I could continue if you want me to.</p>

<p>Sources: <a href=“http://www.engl.virginia.edu/enec981/dictionary/03humeK1.html[/url]”>http://www.engl.virginia.edu/enec981/dictionary/03humeK1.html&lt;/a&gt;
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