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So this was at the same time Chattle slavery was in its hight, and in places in the Caribbean would have worship spaces that would look down onto enslaved quarters, so they could be reminded that suffering is close to godliness, and their (white peoples) proximity to their suffering, made it a more ‘holy’ place.

He was a live at the same time as thee Charlotte d'Éon de Beaumont the first noble trans aristocrat in 1700’s, the Protestant reformation was 200 years prior. Yet Rousseau also agrees that inequality in Christianity is the point they want that bc ‘it’s in gods interest’ not bc it’s in his image? Do they see them as non-human?

“…with right succeeding violence, nature was subjected to the law; what sequence of prodigious events the strong could also resolve to serve the weak, and get the people to purchase imaginary repose at the price of real happiness..”