The Virginian property owners who prevented the baptism of slaves in the late seventeenth century, so as not to spoil the spirit of submission and to avoid the emergence of a sense of pride in them because they belonged to the same religious community as the masters, provoked complaints from Church and Crown alike.145 Once again, we see that it was the forces of the ancien régime which acted to check and contain the novelty represented by racial slavery.

— Liberalism by Domenico Losurdo (Page 34)