American slave owners may have pretended that Africans were mere brutes, beasts of burden, almost as inert and dumb as other farm implements they classified them with in their ledgers.
Donos de escravos norte-americanos fingiam que os africanos eram meros brutos, bestas de carga, quase tão inertes e estúpidos quanto outros implementos agrícolas que eles contavam entre seus bens.