Editing Charles de Montesquieu

{{Infobox philosopher|name=Charles Montesquieu|image_size=200|nationality=French|birth_date=18 January 1689|birth_place=La Brède, Aquitaine, [[Kingdom of France (987–1792)|France]]|death_date=10 February 1755|death_place=Paris, France|image=Montesquieu.png|school_tradition=Classical [[liberalism]]}}

'''Charles Louis Montesquieu''' (18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755) was a liberal French philosopher. He defended [[slavery]] by claiming that people from warm climates are naturally susceptible to being enslaved. He believed slavery was useless in Europe but that it was natural in the [[Global South]] and should only be regulated and not abolished.<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Domenico Losurdo]]|year=2011|title=Liberalism: A Counter-History|chapter=Liberalism and Racial Slavery: A Unique Twin Birth|page=44–45|publisher=Verso|isbn=9781844676934|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=5BB3406BC2E64972831A1C00D5D4BFE4|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebhsj2yxuoudkhkjp6lzgr5jvgyhu76zxe4gw3d65gpg32a6nded4?filename=Domenico%20Losurdo%2C%20Gregory%20Elliott%20-%20Liberalism_%20A%20Counter-History-Verso%20%282011%29.pdf|quote=There are countries where the heat enervates the body and weakens the courage so much that men come to perform an arduous duty only from fear of chastisement: slavery there runs less counter to reason}}</ref> However, he fully opposed [[Feudalism|feudal]] serfdom.<ref name=":122">{{Citation|author=[[Domenico Losurdo]]|year=2011|title=Liberalism: A Counter-History|chapter=Crisis of the English and American Models|page=132|publisher=Verso|isbn=9781844676934|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=5BB3406BC2E64972831A1C00D5D4BFE4|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebhsj2yxuoudkhkjp6lzgr5jvgyhu76zxe4gw3d65gpg32a6nded4?filename=Domenico%20Losurdo%2C%20Gregory%20Elliott%20-%20Liberalism_%20A%20Counter-History-Verso%20%282011%29.pdf}}</ref>

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