LUCAN on swords and slavery vs. A Bill Concerning Slaves

LUCAN on swords and slavery
"Ignorantque datos, ne quisquam serviat, enses."And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.-- Lucanus (A.D. 39-65), De Bello Civili (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Library, 1988), IV, 579, p. 216.

A Bill Concerning Slaves
"No slaves shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another."-- A Bill Concerning Slaves [1785], reproduced in Alfred Fried, Ed., The Essential Jefferson (Collier Books, 1963), p. 140.

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