Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
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There's no more hanging trees.
The whole sort of drawing and quartering people, the most dramatic displays of torturing and destroying the human body, all those things become too squeamish for people.
over the course of the 18th and long 19th century.
And the turn against slavery is part of that.
I agree with that.
But I guess my question is, is the anti-slavery movement the product of that or a cause of it, right?
Does it facilitate the growth of that culture of sensibility?
or does it arise from it?
And I think it's as much a contributor to that ethos
I mean, to give you a very concrete example, you know, the lash in the Royal Navy, right?
I mean, it could be whipped 70, 80 times, right?
We think about whipping on the plantations as something that happens to slaves, but, you know, sailors could be whipped basically up to and sometimes to their death, and captains would be legitimate and have the right to do so.
The turn against whipping in the Navy is in part a consequence against the turn against whipping in slavery.
Right?
So I think it can... It's not that the things that you're describing don't occur.
It's that I think the causal sequence, we sometimes... I think the causal sequence is more complicated than that model would seem to suggest.
The whole idea of gender equality...
in the 19th century and women's rights comes directly out of the campaign against slavery.
Right?
And so again, I think anti-slavery serves as a progenitor of new ideas of equality as much as it is a product of them.
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