George Wallace (advocate)

Wallace published in 1760 in Edinburgh a System of the Principles of the Law of Scotland.^[5][6] It contained criticism of slavery and recommended surrendering empire if empire required exploitation of slave labor. Following Montesquieu, Wallace denied all classical grounds for justifying enslavement.^[7] Louis de Jaucourt translated some part of the book for his article "Traite des nègres" (Slave trade) in the Encyclopédie,^[7] one of the first real denunciations of the colonial project in French thought.^[8]

He also published Thoughts on the Origin of Feudal Tenures and the Descent of Ancient Peerages in Scotland (1783; 2nd edit., Nature and Descent of Ancient Peerages connected with the State of Scotland, 1785), and Prospects from Hills in Fife (1796, 2nd edit. 1800).

• Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Wallace, Robert (1697-1771)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Curran, Andrew S. (2011). The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment. JHU Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0230-7.
• Davis, David Brion (1988). From Homicide to Slavery: Studies in American Culture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-505418-7.
• Davis, David Brion (1999). The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-802949-6.
• de Jaucourt, Louis (1765). "Traite des nègres". Encyclopédie (in French).
• de Jaucourt, Louis (1765). "Slave trade". The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d’Alembert.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Wallace, Robert (1697-1771)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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