The Turk
“hypothetical slaveholder”
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the Turk
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (English)
Let the Quaker and the Turk find their advantage in living under your laws.
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Religious/national minority cited alongside Quakers as an example of a group to be integrated through self-interest.
Let the Quaker and the Turk find their advantage in living under your laws.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
A hypothetical foreign slaveholder used to illustrate the absurdity of allowing foreign slave customs to govern imported persons.
Were it not so, the Turk might import a harem of Georgian slaves, and, at his option, either hold them as his own property, or sell them as slaves to our own people, in defiance of any principles of freedom that should prevail amongst us.