I ' m sure there are exceptions to thatOllenhauer , Brandt , Barzel , Kohl . Two of which became chancellor after all . <| sep |> product of his time and cultureThe same exact time that produced Henri Gregoire and John WoolmanTherefore , contrasting his attitude with those of other people who objected to slavery for religious reasons while not saying anything about whether those people thought blacks were inferior to whites is disingenuousYou got me there . I should have mentioned that . Garrison and Brown both believed in absolute racial equality . I ' m not aware of Stowe ' s opinions on the matter . I ' m going to take a second to point out that this entire conversation is based on your false premise earlierIf you use it to mean , as it makes sense in this discussion , that Voltaire was specifically a proponent of slavery , I think that ' s an exaggeration . When I said Voltaire was racist , I wasn ' t actually saying he condoned slavery , I was saying he was fucking racist and subscribed to racist opinions promoted by polygenists . Trying to convince me that he was against slavery is futile because I never claimed he condoned it . Trying to convince me his racism wasn ' t unique among white Europeans is also futile , I never claimed otherwise . If you want to give Voltaire a pass for racism due to the time and circumstances he lived in , fine that ' s your decision . But you cannot argue that A he wasn ' t racist see Voltaire ' s own words or B everyone else was just as racist as he was see the aforementioned Gregoire and Woolman