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“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:”
— Jan 07, 2026 12:34AM
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Emiliya Bozhilova
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Моите уважение към порцелана с марка Уеджууд. Основателят със стъклото име е един от най-колоритните поддръжници на аболиционизма!
— Jan 17, 2026 08:11AM
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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.
— Jan 16, 2026 11:57AM
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“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”
— Jan 15, 2026 02:35PM
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Присъдите на Барбадос за осъдени роби често да включвали изгаряне на клада. Публично.
— Jan 11, 2026 08:07AM
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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 😆
— Jan 11, 2026 08:02AM
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“hopes and legends are what drive people to action, not bottom-line calculations by economists of a later age.”
— Jan 11, 2026 07:55AM
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“The abolitionists' first job was to make Britons understand what lay behind the sugar they ate, the tobacco they smoked, the coffee they drank.”
— Jan 07, 2026 12:31AM
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“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.”
— Jan 07, 2026 12:30AM
