Christopher Brown
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It's a constant feature of British political life.
They don't succeed for large parts of those years, but they're always there.
And there's always a public which is supportive of anti-slavery agendas.
But whether they're able to succeed politically has a lot to do with the state of play in politics and the relative balance of power of different political factions.
that rise and fall has very, almost nothing to do with the issue of slavery.
But their fortunes have profound influences on what happens to the institution of slavery.
Yeah, I think that's right.
And this is why I think the moment of the 1780s is so important.
Because what gets established in the decade after the American Revolution is the belief, the view, the notion that standing in opposition to some aspect of the slave system is a sign of individual and collective virtue.
That it says something good about you as a person.
It says something good about you as a community.
It says something good about you as a nation.
And for most of the folks who take anti-slavery positions, it's deeply held.
But it's also, in some ways, costless, right?
I mean, it doesn't... There's no... The barriers to entry are incredibly low, right?
Because all of the impact...
most of the impact, the impact that people think about, is all overseas.
So I often think about, there's a lot of literature, especially in the 1980s, 1990s, that really emphasized just how all the petitioning, there's just hundreds of thousands of people signing anti-slavery petitions in the 1790s, in the first decade of the 19th century.
There's no issue around which the British public was more united
than opposing the slave trade and later opposing slavery.
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