John Locke's "universal" categories and American realities: the critical essay of ideological principles of colonialism and imperialism

John Locke as an ideologist of British and American imperialism and colonialism remains practically unknown to the wide scientific and juridical community of our country. Having read special scientific literature, the most important juridical documents of the colonial and post-colonial periods in the history of the USA, the author came to the conclusion that such inherent rights as rights to freedom, equality and property, which are usually viewed as universal categories, according to Locke do not cover the Indians and Afro-Americans. John Locke believed that the former were savages or even wild animals, which must be killed under the condition of rebellion against colonial land seizure, the latter were given the status of slaves by the co-author of the colonial constitution of Carolina. Thus, John Locke and his followers share the responsibility for the ideological grounding of the longest, the most high-scale genocide, and the cruelest exploitation of black slaves.