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Mises on wealth creation and stopping the spirit of predatory militarism (1949)
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Ludwig von Mises
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2017-01-02 |
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Benjamin Franklin on making the transition from slavery to civil liberty (1789)
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Benjamin Franklin
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2015-05-25 |
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Tocqueville on Centralised Government in Canada and Decentralised Government in America (1856)
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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2014-05-19 |
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John Stuart Mill on “the sacred right of insurrection” (1862)
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John Stuart Mill
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2011-04-17 |
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Frederick Douglass makes a New Year’s resolution to gain his freedom from slavery (1836)
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Frederick Douglass
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2009-12-28 |
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Emerson on the right of self-ownership of slaves to themselves and to their labor (1863)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2009-12-14 |
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Sir William Blackstone declares unequivocally that slavery is “repugnant to reason, and the principles of natural law” and that it has no place in English law (1753)
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Sir William Blackstone
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2009-01-05 |
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Harriet Martineau on the institution of slavery, “restless slaves”, and the Bill of Rights (1838)
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Harriet Martineau
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2008-08-25 |
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John Stuart Mill on the “atrocities” committed by Governor Eyre and his troops in putting down the Jamaica rebellion (1866)
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John Stuart Mill
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2007-10-15 |
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Jeremy Bentham relates a number of “abominations” to the French National Convention urging them to emancipate their colonies (1793)
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Jeremy Bentham
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2007-08-06 |
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Thomas Clarkson on the “glorious” victory of the abolition of the slave trade in England (1808)
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Thomas Clarkson
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2007-03-12 |
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Jean-Baptiste Say argues that home-consumers bear the brunt of the cost of maintaining overseas colonies and that they also help support the lavish lifestyles of the planter and merchant classes (1817)
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Jean Baptiste Say
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2007-02-23 |
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J.B. Say argues that colonial slave labor is really quite profitable for the slave owners at the expense of the slaves and the home consumers (1817)
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Jean Baptiste Say
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2007-02-22 |
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John Millar argues that as a society becomes wealthier domestic freedom increases, even to the point where slavery is thought to be pernicious and economically inefficient (1771)
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John Millar
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2006-07-24 |
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Adam Smith notes that colonial governments might exercise relative freedom in the metropolis but impose tyranny in the distant provinces (1776)
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Adam Smith
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2006-06-19 |
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Less well known is Thomas Jefferson’s First Draft of the Declaration of Independence in which he denounced the slave trade as an “execrable Commerce” and slavery itself as a “cruel war against nature itself” (1776)
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Thomas Jefferson
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2005-07-04 |