The apolitical anti-socialist

Modern workers – recall Nietzsche wrote in the second half of the 19^th Century, roughly from the time of our Reconstruction Era – are admitted by all to be worse off than slaves, he says.

They live under worse conditions and work longer and harder.

Human, All Too Human, aphorism 457, Slaves and workers

Some historians have said as much.

But we have far too many racial skeletons in our national closets for that to be a common view, here in America.