Second Treatise of Government

What was Locke's view of slavery?

John Locke, Second Treatise of Government

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Loche had two notions of slavery: legitimate slavery was captivity with forced labor imposed by the just winning side in a war; illegitimate slavery was an authoritarian deprivation of natural rights. Locke did not try to justify either black slavery or the oppression of Amerindians.