{"id":2058,"date":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2013\/01\/12\/am-i-not-a-man-and-a-brother-the-abolition-of-the-transatlantic-slave-trade-great-britains-campaign-for-human-equality\/"},"modified":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"am-i-not-a-man-and-a-brother-the-abolition-of-the-transatlantic-slave-trade-great-britains-campaign-for-human-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2013\/01\/12\/am-i-not-a-man-and-a-brother-the-abolition-of-the-transatlantic-slave-trade-great-britains-campaign-for-human-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I Not a Man and a Brother? The Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Great Britain\u2019s Campaign for Human Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can slavery be morally justified?<br \/>\n \uf0b7 Aristotle: Humans are not equal due to differing reasoning abilities. Slaves do not have a sufficient capacity to reason to warrant freedom. Slavery is in the best interest of the slave, the master and the polis.<br \/>\n \uf0b7 Augustine: Slavery is a form of punishment for original sin. Moral virtue can be increased as a result of being a slave to the body rather than to desires. God will reward slaves in heaven.<br \/>\n \uf0b7 Kant: All humans are equal. Slavery cannot be universalized without contradiction and treats humans as means to an end, thus it is immoral. <\/p>\n<p>The importance of political freedom:<br \/>\n \uf0b7 Isaiah Berlin: The amount that society can interfere with an individual\u2019s freedom depends on the natural rights theory of that society. Laws must conflict with a person\u2019s natural rights to justify protest.<br \/>\n \uf0b7 Rawls: All humans have an equal claim to basic liberty and rights. Freedom is an inalienable basic right that slavery infringes upon.<br \/>\n  \uf0b7Methods of political protest employed by abolitionists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere\u201d (Martin Luther King Jr.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosemary Naylor, 2013, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[609,22,128],"tags":[106,37,354],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-609","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-aristotle","tag-morality","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}