...Filmer's Patriarcha because it would "perswade all Men, that they are Slaves." "Slavery," Locke scolded, "is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man , and so...our Nation; that 'tis hardly to be conceived that an EngftffaiMn, much less a Gentleman, should plead for 't."1 1 In England in 1689 a writer referred to...

...imperative on political policy. John Locke, Britain's most representative philosopher, had written: "Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man,...an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for't."177 The same John Locke, however, as an administrator of slave-owning colonies in America and...

...Whiggery—that impulse which caused John Locke to declare that "slavery is so vile and miserable a state of man, and so directly opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly possible to be conceived that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it"—was...

...and so directly opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly possible to be conceived that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it" — was reasserted and correlated with the idea of market efficiency.60 Free trade regained the untarnished...

...John Locke in Two Treatises of Government, modeled political authority on the father-son relationship. "Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man,...to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation," Locke wrote almost exactly one hundred years before that fateful Convention in Philadelphia, "that...

...carefully deflects from his poem—occupies Locke for the whole of the first book of Two Treatises. "Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man,...an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't" (Ii). Locke could hardly have chosen better than to open with slavery; it was a key term in...

...in Western Culture. He points out some of the contradictions in Locke, for example. Locke wrote that "Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of man,...conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, shoud plead for 't." Yet it was Locke who drafted the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which...

...very idea of slavery in the first sentence of his First Treatise: "Slavery," he had written there, "is so vile and miserable an estate of man, and so...the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly to be conceived that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it." But then,...

...Locke wrestled with the resultant tensions. In his Two Treatises of Government he famously declared: ‘Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of Man,...Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for it.' 87 Locke meant that Englishmen, especially English gentlemen, should utterly reject the notion that...

...with the discourse of slavery that opens the Two Treatises, with their sardonic summary of Filmerism: Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man,...an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't.45 And still Locke has not finished tying together his major concerns; he sets beside this economic...