University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Reading and Radicalization:Print, Politics, and the American Revolution
  • Eric Slauter
Figure 5. Nathaniel Ames read Locke during a period of heightened public scrutiny of slavery in Massachusetts. In one of many topical annotations to his copy of the Edes and Gill edition of the Second Treatise, Ames quipped that it would be "Good for African traders and Slave-holders to read" this passage. Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Figure 5.

Nathaniel Ames read Locke during a period of heightened public scrutiny of slavery in Massachusetts. In one of many topical annotations to his copy of the Edes and Gill edition of the Second Treatise, Ames quipped that it would be "Good for African traders and Slave-holders to read" this passage. Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia.

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