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slavery in the United States  

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  • 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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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-K689JVG0-3

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