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Unfortunately, I don't think that indigenous peoples were really regarded even as properly "human" by any Europeans at that time. Certainly, the record of British colonisation in Australia and South Africa is nothing to be proud of in that regard.
Interestingly, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, whose books I so admire, was regarded as an ultra-reactionary in his time, because he spoke up for the rights of native African peoples, such as the Zulu, to govern themselves without interference from colonial authorities.
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