In Olaudah Equiano’s book, readers are given the opportunity to see slavery in the 18th century from an uncommon perspective: that of the slave himself. Because many slaves of that time could not receive proper education to read and write, Equiano’s account is both interesting and significant because the reader will begin to understand the […]
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As a defender of slavery, John C. Calhoun made arguments explicitly opposed to the Founders’ conception of individual rights. Calhoun, in his Disquisition on Government, denied the existence of a state of nature in which people are born free and equal. For Calhoun, this state of nature never did nor can exist; all men are […]