Monday, July 4, 2016

OTHERWISE: Did a Fear of Slave Revolts Drive American Independence? - The New York Times

OTHERWISE: Did a Fear of Slave Revolts Drive American Independence? - The New York Times

As to the several sorts of servants: I have formerly observed that pure and proper slavery does not, nay cannot, subsist in England; such I mean, whereby an absolute and unlimited power is given to the master over the life and fortune of the slave. And indeed it is repugnant to reason, and the principles of natural law, that such a state should subsist any where.
Judge William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England - 1765

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