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Josiah Tucker

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Josiah Tucker
BornDecember 1713
Talacharn, Wales, Great Britain
Died4 November 1799
Gloucester, England, Great Britain
NationalityWelsh
Political orientationAbolitionism
Liberalism


Josiah Tucker (December 1713 – 4 November 1799) was a Welsh political and economic theorist and philosopher. He denounced John Locke as a supporter of slavery[1] and similarly criticized the hypocrisy of the Statesian Revolution, which abolished monarchism but continued slavery.[2]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Domenico Losurdo (2011). Liberalism: A Counter-History: 'Were Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England and America Liberal?' (p. 124). [PDF] Verso. ISBN 9781844676934 [LG]
  2. Domenico Losurdo (2011). Liberalism: A Counter-History: 'Liberalism and Racial Slavery' (p. 38). [PDF] Verso. ISBN 9781844676934 [LG]