How Toy Story can be explained by the Psychology of Slavery

The idea of sentient toys becomes horrifying in all sorts of ways if you take it seriously. How many of your once-loved childhood toys have now been sealed in cold dark boxes for years? How many have been ripped to pieces or discarded in garbage dumps?

On the other hand, another thing that bugs me about many American writers about slavery is that they only consider it in the context of 19th-century America, rather than as something that occurred in nearly all parts of the world for nearly all of history.