Did jean Jacques rosseau believe that a slave can be free?

Answer 1

If he did, then he did not understand the definition nor the terms of slavery. A slave by definition can not be free. A slave, however, has no place in the land of the free. What Jean Jacques Rousseau held was that war is a product manufactured between states and man, certainly not civilized men, do not war with each other. In his writing the Social Contract, Rousseau argued that that the contract of slavery is invalid in a civil society because it is a contract that works against reason and nature. While Rousseau had reservations about unabridged freedom for people, he did believe in natural law, and a such, believed that naturally people are free, and no man or woman can rightly enslave another.