Famous Quotes | No man is by nature the property...

No man is by nature the property of another. The defendant is, therefore, by nature free. - Samuel Johnson
Attribution: Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British author, lexicographer. (Originally published 1791). Boswell’s Life of Johnson, September 23, 1777, p. 878, Oxford University Press (1980). Comment on legal case concerning a Jamaican slave.

Categories: Author, Lexicographer, Nature, Property, Slavery

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