Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.
"Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.
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