Locke wrote his essay concerning human understanding in 1690 offering the renowned metaphor comparing the mind to lank slate on which experience writes. ... Consequently effects such as color, odor, sound, warmth, and smell are all secondary qualities. ... For example water, which may appear warm to someone who is cold, might be perceived as cold to someone who is hot. ... In the Essay, he tries to demonstrate this, by saying, "though God has given us no innate ideas of himself." ... Secondary qualities are those things that are concrete (sense oriented), such as color, smell, sound, and taste...

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To pose the question differently, why slavery, and why were the slaves carried across the Atlantic exclusively African? The short answer to the first of these two questions is that European expansion to the Americas was to mainly tropical and semi-tropical areas. ... Every society in history before 1900 provided at least an unthinking answer to the question of which groups are to be considered eligible for enslavement, and normally they did not recruit heavily from their own community. ... But the central question of which peoples from Africa went to a given region of the Americas, and which ...

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