Joshua Rosenblum’s Reviews > Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy > Status Update

"The abolition of slavery was very much a Western initiative. It was Europe that "first decided to set the slaves free: at home, then in the colonies, and finally in all the world," as Bernard Lewis said. Abolitionism was a concept that did not resonate well in either black Africa, where slavery was not opposed in principle, or in the Islamic world, where it was believed to be supported by religion."