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What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.
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At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
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Bernard Bailyn
Born:
September 9, 1922
Died:
August 7, 2020
(aged 97)
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Bernard Bailyn was an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice.
Known for:
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1974)
The Peopling of British North America (1986)
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