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Adam Hochschild on Our Obligation to the Common Good pt. 1

The Daily Stoic

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Bury the Chains

On May 22, 1787, 12 men met in a London printing shop to end the slave trade. The British Empire at this time was the world's greatest slave trading and slave owning country. Five years later, 300,000 Britons were participating in a sugar boycott refusing to buy slave-grown sugar for their tea and their coffee. Stay tuned for the next episode where we dig deeper into two other wonderful books he wrote.

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