Stephen Miller Recreates Slaveholder Ideology Takes by Jamelle Bouie [View all]

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Miller is basically recapitulating the views of one of the most radical pro-slavery voices of the antebellum South, and reminding us that his vision is fundamentally at odds with the best traditions in American political life.

If you’d like to read more about pro-slavery thought — and the voices and thinkers who opposed it — you should check out “American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism” by the political theorist and historian Keidrick Roy.