Moral Progress and the Problem of Slavery
Zealots at the Gate
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The Origins of Abolitionism
The first people who start to organize and express abolitionist sentiments are Quakers in 1689, 1690 in Pennsylvania. They're 100% religiously motivated, right? So it's very interesting that you have a religious tradition which never had any problem with slavery. Yet the first real motions of abolitionism and objection come from people whose in whom that objection is100% religiously motivated Christian religiously motivated. The vast majority of slavery in human history is not justified racially. It's not justified based on how you look or what your, your hair is like, right?
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