Age of Enlightenment
Liberalism
- Ideology of SELF (autonomy)
- 18th-century: Property (“pursuit of happiness”) and Natural rights
- 19th-century: Interests (markets) and Human rights (abolitionists)
Republicanism
- Ideology of SELF-GOVERNMENT (democracy)
- 18th-century: virtue, disinterest, separation of powers
- 19th-century: partisanship and reform
KEY DATES
1688 // Glorious Revolution
1775 // American Revolution
TEXT
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Slavery
- Chattel (property)
- Servitude (forced labor)
KEY DATES
1619 // First record of Africans sold in Virginia
1772 // Somerset case (Lord Mansfield) in Great Britain
TEXT
Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa” (1773)