The greatest damage that enslavement did, besides the economic damage, besides the normalization of torture, of rape, besides the normalization of treating people as though they are things, is the institution in the American mind that Black people are necessarily inferior.
Cohen discusses the lasting impact of enslavement on perceptions of Black people.
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