“At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.”

—  Bernard Bailyn , book The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 237.

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