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Very strange to consider Darwin as the father of racism.
Your quote reminds me of an anecdote he tells in The Voyage of the Beagle, about a group of slaves somewhere in South America, who escaped and lived in the forest for some time. They were eventually recaptured, except for an old woman who threw herself off a cliff to escape her pursuers. Darwin's comment to this (from memory) was something like "From a Roman matron, this would be considered admirable. From a slave, it's only seen as a sign of stubbornness."
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