The Pen Proves to Be Mightier Than the Sword

This is a period in history when humanity went from here to there on the slavery question. The ideas of things like the american revolution do not sound radical to people to day. When they first showed up, there are a lots of places where you start talking about that stuff openly,. and they will kill you. They'll execute you in a lot of these societies that have czars or holy roman emperors or absolute rulers. There's a lot of places you'll get killed.