Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
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Yeah, I wasn't quite saying, I mean, my point is less that, well, yes, I mean, the Atlantic slave trade does not work without West African elites involved.
capturing and selling folks.
And so, yes, there are, you know, descendants of slave traders in West Africa.
Let's just say that there are descendants of slave traders in Europe and the Americas.
This is an issue that sometimes confuses people.
And I think one way to think about it is the wealthy and powerful from two different worlds conspiring to exploit
The weak, the poor, the politically defeated, those who've been condemned to crimes.
And so it's in some ways a kind of an international, you know, economically privileged group that's battening on a very vulnerable group of people and selling them into slavery in the Americas.
Yeah, I mean, it's obviously a big topic, and it's one of these subjects that, by its very nature, can't be proved or disproved, right?
We don't know.
The fact of the matter is, we don't know what would have happened in the 19th century and into the early 20th century if anti-slavery movements had not arisen.
at the end of the 18th century, if the British slave trade had not been abolished in 1807, if there had not been an international movement to suppress the slave trade through the first half of the 19th century.
We don't know.
And it's important to kind of start from that position.
I've taken the view that the things that did happen that led to slave trade abolition and emancipation
Given where the world had been in the 18th century, that the changes in the 19th century were not only not inevitable, but they were actually very unlikely.
And I ground that in the economic strength of the Atlantic slave trade and the economic value of slavery in the 19th century, even in the face of abolitionist and emancipationist movements.
There is no record, at least that I'm aware of, of slave traders or slave-holding societies saying that they had had enough and they weren't going to do this anymore.
Slaving is as old as human history.
And I think we tend to forget that.
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