Christopher Brown
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That's certainly true in the middle and northern United States by the early 19th century.
And I think it's sort of a lot of the rank and file.
of abolitionist and then emancipationist convictions in Britain.
So if you wanted to run an argument that really emphasized economic development, I think it's too crude and I think it only goes so far, but you could make an argument that the
The democratization of politics brings in a group of folks who are less inclined or less sympathetic to the kinds of privileges that slaveholders under an ancien regime enjoy.
Now, I don't think democratic revolutions are inherently hostile to slaveholding.
The United States is essentially a slaveholding republic.
But I do think that the way it works out in certain places, depending on the socioeconomic configurations, I do think that if you want to think about long-term economic development, that would be the place that I would look for it.
Do you have any reactions to that?
Certainly a feature of anti-slavery thought and a common element in anti-slavery argument, especially in England, is what you might identify as the harm sort of axis.
There's a lot of propaganda, anti-slavery pamphlets that emphasize the cruelty, emphasize the barbarity, emphasize the physical violence, emphasize the suffering as the reason to care and then the reason to act.
And on the fairness part,
Sometimes that expresses itself in the notion of human equality.
And therefore, that equality means that the treatment, the grounds on which people are treated, goes in some ways into the equality under law, right?
And those are elements.
that are in anti-slavery argument.
But I would go back to the question in my mind is that are they prior or are they posterior consequences of anti-slavery movements?
Because these are not, as you say, these are in some ways are not new movements.
The harm one is actually very interesting because in the 18th and early 19th century, in Anglo-American culture, there is a real turn against the most bloody of punishments, right?
Capital punishment goes into behind closed doors.
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