Status Updates From Bury the Chains: Prophets &...

Моите уважение към порцелана с марка Уеджууд. Основателят със стъклото име е един от най-колоритните поддръжници на аболиционизма!

Просто прелестно разобличение на бащите-основатели на САЩ по повод робството. Особено ген. Вашингтон с неговите стотици роби. Свобода и независимост…но само за белите.

“When slavery ended in the United States, less than half a million slaves imported over the centuries had grown to a population of nearly four million. When it ended in the British West Indies, total slave imports of well over two million left a surviving slave population of only about 670,000”

Присъдите на Барбадос за осъдени роби често да включвали изгаряне на клада. Публично.

Много е забавно как един от аболиционистите от 18 век в Британия е на път да хвърля ези-тура, за да избере за коя от двете до любими да се ожени 😆

“hopes and legends are what drive people to action, not bottom-line calculations by economists of a later age.”

Note to self: on next full chapter for when you get book again

“If, early that year [1787], you had stood on a London street corner and insisted that slavery was morally wrong and should be stopped, nine out of ten listeners would have laughed you off as a crackpot. The tenth might have agreed with you in principle, but assured you that ending slavery was wildly impractical:”

“The abolitionists' first job was to make Britons understand what lay behind the sugar they ate, the tobacco they smoked, the coffee they drank.”

“The eighteenth century had its own booming version of globalization, and at its core was the Atlantic trade in slaves and in the goods they produced.”