Is it Race or Class?
How History Links Jefferson to Trump in the Black Lives Matter Era
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7 min readAug 13, 2020
In the west, capitalism and chattel slavery have been entangled since their respective beginnings, and the question of race and class has endured since those times. As far as those two institutions in the US, I figured we should explore the words of one of the leading philosophers of the 18th century.
