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In 1778, an African man known to history as Joseph Knight won his freedom in Scotland after a tortuous, four-year series of legal cases. Many tourists have seen the statue, selfied with it, posed beside it, affectionately rubbed Hume’s toe “for luck” until it smoothly shines. David Hume has long been considered one of the leading intellectual figures in a …
