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The Evolution of Slavery in Western Culture
The institution of slavery arose as a consequence of capturing enemy combatants deciding not to kill them. Great britain fought slavery on the high seas for 175 years and basically eradicated it as at least a morally acceptable enterprise. Even if the u.s like other cultures is contaminated by the desire for power it's the anti-slaver ethos that's actually central to the entire project. The enlightenment idea right that it was the enlightenment that produced now let's talk about the french revolutionaries.