Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jan
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There's no fugitive slave laws.
And then on the other side of the Atlantic, slavery is literally everywhere.
Um,
And so that contrast becomes, in some ways, a way of defining national character with Americans being a different nation, even before they're independent, in part because they're slaveholders.
I see.
But it's very easy to oppose something that doesn't involve you.
Yeah.
Or anybody that you know.
Right?
Yeah, it's a, you know,
I spent more time than I'd care to admit thinking about this subject.
And one of the very hardest parts was trying to decide how to deal with the heroes of traditional accounts.
Because, you know, names that will be familiar to many listeners, that were familiar to many generations of readers of
of British history, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, the Clapham sect.
For the longest time, they were not just the first movers, the progenitors, but also heroes.
And they were kind of stood in this special place of having revealed and then mobilized and then led
and then persisted in seeing the cause brought to its successful conclusion.
And so when I first started working on this subject many, many years ago, I was determined not to tell that story.
And not only because, um, it's a kind of a, a complacent story, um, that by extension becomes a story of, of, of national greatness.
Um, and as a kind of, uh,
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