11. “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? Samuel Johnson, "Taxation No Tyranny" (1775).
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12. Johnson's Tory critique of the American Revolution hit a nerve that is still raw: liberty was conceived of as liberty for some, not all
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13. The slave owner did not see himself as a feudal master, but as heir to Locke, Jefferson & Jackson: a free man.
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14. The defense of slavery drew heavily on Lockean notions of property rights: to abolish slavery meant ending a kind of freedom.
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15. Again, sociologically & not in the abstract, white Americans pre-1865 knew they were free because they weren't black slaves.
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16. Notions of freedom weren't abstract but gender and racially specific: not the free person but the free (white) man.
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17. Of course, there's been tremendous struggle to expand the idea of "the free (white) man" to become "the free person" but also lag.
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18. Classical liberalism was blind on these gender & race problems, which modern liberalism & social democracy have sought to solve.
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19. One problem with libertarianism is that they refuse to see how limited classical liberalism was and why it needed to be modified.
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@DougHenwood Well, I'm trying to figure out why guys like Bundy exist.
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