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  • I think I see what’s happening here. The missing piece of the puzzle is that there are 2 kinds of rights.

    “Negative rights” = the right to not have certain things happen to you, aka freedoms. Eg freedom from being assaulted.

    “Positive rights” = the right to do/have stuff.

    In the case of enslavement, the negative right - to be free from being forced to work, owned, etc is a much more important right than the positive right to own property.