Dissertation on Slavery

As Americans swear to live free or die, St. George Tucker points to the people they have chained at home. How can a land of liberty call itself free?

Writing in late-eighteenth-century Virginia, Tucker confronts the republic’s founding contradiction: liberty proclaimed for some, bondage imposed on others. He traces slavery’s roots and considers its nature under the law, then takes up the hard question of how Virginia might abolish it gradually. The stakes are larger than political consistency: the nation must reckon with the suffering it has inflicted and the principles it claims to defend. Can a practical path to freedom be found without postponing justice indefinitely?

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