...This chapter examines John Locke’s philosophy of natural rights, and his ambiguous political and economic ties to the colony of South Carolina. It considers some of the written and cultural underpinnings for human rights discourse in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on what might...

.... The hypothesis that the South Carolina Gazette stood in some causal relationship to the Stono Rebellion highlights the growing importance of print technology in the colonies. This chapter examines slavery in eighteenth-century America and how a discourse on natural rights emerged in the writing...

... analyzes John Locke’s philosophy of natural rights and his ambiguous political and economic ties to the colony of South Carolina, and how this rights discourse emerged in the writing of Quaker abolitionists, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and others. The book also assesses the legal repercussions...