Locke wa never the kind founding father that Americans later have thought they had had.
He was actually in favor of chattel slavery, owned big investments himself in the Africa Company and the africa slave trade, did not consider all humans equal, did not favor universal or even expanded suffrage or womens suffrage, was hostile to both the Anglican and Catholic churches, and had many other English Puritan Latitudinarian Dissenter and armed revolt option revolutionary views.
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