@inbook{10.3138/9781442687943.17,
 ISBN = {9780802089359},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442687943.17},
 abstract = {Those who want John Locke to be consistently liberal have sometimes found a condemnation of slavery in the ringing words that openTwo Treatises of Government:‘Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that anEnglishman,much less aGentleman,should plead for’t.’¹ The English gentleman in question is Robert Filmer, who defends royal absolutism by arguing that the state into which all are born is subjection to paternal-cum-monarchical power. Far from pleading for the institution of slavery, Filmer avoids},
 author = {MARY NYQUIST},
 booktitle = {Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England},
 pages = {356--398},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {Slavery, Resistance, and Nation in Milton and Locke},
 year = {2008}
}