Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
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of certain sorts of consequences that are built into an event or a moment.
I could imagine a line of argument that I don't quite believe, but I could imagine a line of argument that said that anti-slavery was inevitable because of the American Revolution.
That's actually not my view.
But I could imagine a line of argument that made that case.
From a macro standpoint, from the standpoint of cultural change,
or economic change or religious change, I don't... It's a hard case to make.
I think it's a really hard case to make.
You know, one line of argument that gets a lot of air is that the inefficiencies...
of slave labor in the end would have become problematic in industrial economies.
Well, that's right.
And also I think the other part that's actually even more interesting in some ways with the development of robotics
So that some of the drudge labor, to the extent that it can be mechanized, makes human inputs less necessary.
The problem with that line of argument is...
To the extent that it has merit, it misses the ways that slavery was much more than an economic institution.
It's also a strategy of difference and domination.
And many slaveholding societies have actually organized themselves around the possession of slaves as luxury items.
The predominant slave in human history is not the strong man, but the young girl or the child.
The extent to which slavery has served the purposes of sexual exploitation has never been taken fully into account and evaluated, in part because in most cultures it's not terribly easy to document.
The ways in which slavery has been used to acquire and incorporate young people who then can become loyal servants of the powerful.
Think about the kinds of stories that we tell about, that get told about child soldiers in sub-Saharan Africa.
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