Generation X: A Myth in the Making

Generation X: A Myth in the Making

the 15th century. Not even criminals or prisoners could be turned into chattel slaves, if they were Euro- peans. Enslavement had become, in European eyes, "a fate worse than death and, as such, was reserved for non-Europeans." And the line divid- ing "insider" and "outsider," Eltis says, "was never drawn strictly in terms of skin color or race."
Among Africans and American Indians, how- ever, much narrower notions of who should not be enslaved prevailed;...

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