What Helped to Justify the Growth of Slavery in the Eighteenth

question 62

Multiple Choice

What helped to justify the growth of slavery in the eighteenth century?

• A)The defense of social inequalities between men and women by certain philosophes
• B)The bureaucratic reforms of practitioners of enlightened absolutism
• C)The emergence of scientific racism
• D)The common philosophical belief that the masses were like children in need of firm guidance

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