Contrast British liberty and African slavery. How was the enslavement of blacks justified by slaveowners, despite popular Enlightenment ideals? Please reference all three required readings.

Question: Contrast British liberty and African slavery. How was the enslavement of blacks justified by slaveowners, despite popular Enlightenment ideals? Please reference all three required readings.

Instruction:

Must be 2 pages (Double-space) and MUST BE CITED in Chicago Format

Absolutely NO PLAGIARISM

Required readings:

Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty! An American Revolution, Vol 1, Chapter 4

Excerpts from John Locke's Two Treatises of Government, 1689: http://www.mcgill-toolen.org/ourpages/users/tenhunm/ap_us_gov/Chapter%2001%20The%20Study%20of%20American%20Government/Locke%20Second%20Treatise%20excerpts.pdf (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Evolution of Virginia's slave laws: http://www.history.org/history/teaching/slavelaw.cfm (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Excerpt from Henry Care's 1685 English Liberties, Or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=60 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

William Bull's report on the 1739 Stono Rebellion in South Carolina: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h311t.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.