Did all humans originate in Africa?

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@higherlead

The European enslavement of Black Africans began in the 15th century well before the discovery of the New World and long before Carolus Linnaes started modern systematics or Darwin thought about evolution or Margaret Sanger popularized eugenics.

Margaret Sanger and Charles Darwin came long after David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Thomas Jefferson. But just because they didn’t word it as polygenism, the underlying idea is the same.</p>

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@higherlead

People don’t need Polygenism to justify slavery and in fact it was never the justification for modern slavery.

You said that polygenism was never used to justify modern slavery (which I took to mean the enslavement of blacks in the Americas). I contradicted this statement, and you said prove it. In my last post, I provided you with the proof. If you want some more, then I’d be happy to cite more thinkers during the time period of the American slave trade who prove my point. But, the conclusion is the same, polygenism was used to justify slavery.</p>