A people that sells its own children is more condemnable than the buyer; this commerce demonstrates our superiority; he who gives himself a master was born to have one.


Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Espit des Nations (1753)


A people that sells its own children is more condemnable than the buyer; this commerce demonstrates our superiority; he who gives himself a master...

A people that sells its own children is more condemnable than the buyer; this commerce demonstrates our superiority; he who gives himself a master...

A people that sells its own children is more condemnable than the buyer; this commerce demonstrates our superiority; he who gives himself a master...

A people that sells its own children is more condemnable than the buyer; this commerce demonstrates our superiority; he who gives himself a master...