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Preferred term
slavery in the United States
Definition
- John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau confronted slavery as an intellectual problem; Thomas Jefferson, John C. Calhoun, and Frederick Douglass lived it. This is what led C. L. R. James to say that what Europeans faced as a philosophical question, the Americans faced as an empirical one. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Slavery in the United States]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/slavery_in_the_United_States
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