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It is namely these ‘privileged slaves’, which had provided White people with internal insight onto slavery, for the first time in history. Some of them were able to get an education, due to their owners’ progressive socio-political attitudes. Yet, as time went by, more and more Black slaves began to question the moral soundness of the very concept of slavery. Christianity was there to provide an ideological legitimacy for such state of affairs, with Blacks being considered to be the descendants of Ham – cursed to have dark skin and doomed to remain servants forever. In fact, these slaves were not even considered being humans, in the full sense of this word.
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