Samuel Johnson in 1776: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Close reader Eric Alterman: "Samuel Johnson is expressing contempt for liberty by criticizing hypocrisy of slave-owning American revolutionaries." https://twitter.com/Eric_Alterman/status/1405128990243840000 …
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Yes he was against that, rightly. But he was also hostile to legitimate claims about liberty, i.e., representation, etc. Hard to disentangle these threads, but it can be done.
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