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“It’s the story of the British abolitionist movement, which included North America at the time. In particular, he argues that the abolition of slavery was a quite contingent event, it’s something that could easily have never happened.” Read more...
Will MacAskill, Nonprofit Leaders & Activist
“It’s about the abolitionist movement in England in the late 18th century and the turn of the 19th century and it tries to explain why so many Englishmen got involved in anti-slavery. There were no slaves in England so contact with slavery wasn’t something most people would have had. So, how, starting with the Quakers in the 1880s, did huge numbers, in the end millions, of Englishmen end up signing petitions against slavery in the colonies?” Read more...
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Philosopher
