"Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving of the child, as if the wrong of enslaving the parent had never been perpetrated."
- Lysander SpoonerAmerican political philosopher and 19th-century activist Lysander Spooner wrote a great deal about social justice and individual rights. In addition to harming those who were directly enslaved, he thought that slavery was inherently wrong because it went against natural law, which holds that human r…