The Hubris of Albion

"Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out."
Lord Jeffery
For as many years as America and Europe have sought repentance for their atrocities to Africa, we have also searched the annals of history to find how such a thing as slavery or concept as racial superiority could ever thrive in modern civilization. We have debated for ages whether our notion of supremacy was the crucible for slave trade, or merely its by-product. It is this fledgling historian's view that neither was the catalyst for the other; rather, they were mutually beneficial perceptions. …