Contrast British liberty and African slavery. How was the enslavement of blacks justified by slaveowners, despite popular Enlightenment ideals? What can you tell were the major concerns regarding the guaranteed freedoms and protections of Englishmen? What can you tell were the major concerns of slaveowners and white slave-owning societies, like Virginia colony? Asked another way, what can we tell were their priorities from the laws created? How and why did theories about race develop alongside the Atlantic slave trade? 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxAlmAPHec 2. http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/alh/docs/virginiaslaverystatutes.html Document: Primary Sources on English Liberties and Colonial Freedoms Document 1: Excerpts from John Locke’s Second Treatise of Civil Government, 1689 Of the State of Nature

Contrast British liberty and African slavery. How was the enslavement of blacks justified by slaveowners, despite popular Enlightenment ideals? What can you tell were the major concerns regarding the guaranteed freedoms and protections of Englishmen? What can you tell were the major concerns of slaveowners and white slave-owning societies, like Virginia colony? Asked another way, what can we tell were their priorities from the laws created? How and why did theories about race develop alongside the Atlantic slave trade? 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxAlmAPHec 2. http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/alh/docs/virginiaslaverystatutes.html Document: Primary Sources on English Liberties and Colonial Freedoms Document 1: Excerpts from John Locke’s Second Treatise of Civil Government, 1689 Of the State of Nature