First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

by Thomas E. Ricks

the same Charles Pinckney who had deplored ancient analogies who a month later invoked them to defend human bondage. “If slavery be wrong, it is justified by the example of all the world. He cited the case of Greece, Rome, & other antient States; . . . In all ages one half mankind had been slaves.”30