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Steven Pressfield, Robert Greene, Jack Carr, Meg Mason, and Adam Hochschild on Writing

The Daily Stoic

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Is It Right or Wrong to Own Another Human Being?

The author was struck by how little people had pondered such an existential and moral question. People took it for granted that a major slave plantation on the island of Barbados, the Cogrington Plantation, was owned by the Church of England. To think about all these clergymen sitting around and having their board meeting in London and not morally questioning this seems outrageous to us.

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