...molest, or persecute another for his speculative opinions in religion, or his way of worship. §1 1o Every freeman of Carolina shall have absolute power...Negro slaves, of what opinion or religion soever. §m. No case, whether civil or criminal, of any freeman, shall be tried in any court of judicature,...

...— but also Locke's role in writing the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina, which declares that "[e]very freeman of Carolina shall have absolute power...over his negro slaves, of what opinion or religion whatsoever" (cited in Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery, 275 n. 92). Moreover, modern democracy...

...years before (1669) he had helped author "The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina," which stated that "[e]very freeman of Carolina shall have absolute power...over his negro slaves, of what opinion or religion whatsoever."6 Thus, the same Locke who declared in the opening line of his First Treatise that "Slavery...

...that the constitution of a British colony in America would sanction the principle according to which "every freeman of Carolina shall have absolute power...over his negro slaves, of what opinion or religion soever."38 Thus, in Two Treatises of Government, one of the classic texts of liberalism, we read: there...

...In 1669, the Fundamental Constitutions of the Carolinas recognized the right of a master to exercise "absolute power and authority over his negro slaves, of what opinion or religion soever." Statutes passed by the colonial government in 1715 and 1741 further elaborated on the shape and texture...

...Cooper, the Fundamental Constitutions and Laws of 1669 institutionalized slavery by declaring that "every freeman of Carolina, shall have absolute power...negro slaves, of what opinion or religion soever." By 1715 an additional consideration, the Tuscarora war and the role runaway slaves played in it, evinced...

...hath over him, but be in all tilings in the same state and condition he was in before." Art. 1ÍO. " Every freeman of Carolina shall have absolute power...negro slaves, of what opinion or religion soever." For the early legislative history of the Carolinas, sec Pref vol. 1 of Rev. St. of North Car. Brevard's...

...master hath over him, but be in all things in the same state and condition he was in before. . . . Every freeman of Carolina, shall have absolute power...negro slaves, of what opinion or religion soever." Thomas Cooper and David J. McCord, eds., The Statutes at Large of South Carolina (repr., Columbia,...

...master hath over him, but be in all things in the same state and condition he was in before. . . . Every freeman of Carolina, shall have absolute power...negro slaves, of what opinion or religion soever." Thomas Cooper and David J. McCord, eds., The Statutes at Large of South Carolina (repr. , Columbia,...

...use them ill"; more chillingly, while guaranteeing Negro slaves freedom of religion, it asserts that "Every Freeman of Carolina shall have absolute Power...Negro Slaves, of what Opinion or Religion soever." Shaftesbury was leader of the party that, in 1679—81, unsuccessfully attempted to exclude Charles...