i thought of how we should approach these issues that can explode in our faces, cause they're a combination of a fensive. We're going to unravel and try to untangle what's going on here. How do we untangle something like this? A famed historian of slavery, david brion davis, in inhuman bondage, has this line. He writes throughout the new world, colonists agreed that the labor of one black was worth that of several ans.