Question: Contrast British liberty and African slavery. How was the enslavement of blacks justified by slaveowners, despite popular Enlightenment ideals?
Please reference all three required readings.
Instruction:
Must be 2 pages (Double-space) and MUST BE CITED in Chicago Format
Absolutely NO PLAGIARISM
Required readings:
Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty! An American Revolution, Vol 1, Chapter 4
Excerpts from John Locke's Two Treatises of Government, 1689.
Evolution of Virginia's slave laws.
Excerpt from Henry Care's 1685 English Liberties, Or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance.
William Bull's report on the 1739 Stono Rebellion in South Carolina.