Fugitive RousseauCritics have claimed that Jean Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with noble savages and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseaus thought and argues that a fresh, fugitive perspective on political freedom is bound up with Rousseaus treatments of primitivism and slavery. Rather than trace Rousseaus arguments primarily to the social contract