Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
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I think, and this really goes to why anti-slavery movements are so important,
To imagine that the entire system could be destroyed requires a degree of imagination and political power and capacity.
Confidence.
That an individual person, you know, I mean, if I decided that I wanted to overthrow the United States, I could go shoot up the Capitol, and I hope the Secret Service is not listening to me right now, but I'd be dead in a matter of seconds.
Right.
You could get a thousand.
It's tried on January 6th.
You get thousands of people together.
Right.
The forces of order in any society are so much more powerful than the than its challengers.
And so, you know, what enslaved men and women more often than not hope to do was to escape, to get out from under slavery and to free the people that they cared about, their mothers, their fathers, their cousins, their kin, the people that they worked with.
In some ways, that's as far, at least until the middle of the 18th century, as they could imagine having an effect and having an influence.
Yes, and I think in places where the enslavement seemed like a consequence of misfortune, captivity, being conquered in war...
somebody who had been captured in war, you know, someone who found themselves essentially on the wrong side of the master-slave relationship, if they were manumitted or they escaped, it was not unusual for them to become a slave.
I mean, the famous case of this is a West African case of princes from, you know, what's present day Nigeria, who were slave traders, son of a prominent slave traders, who themselves were taken captives, although they were not supposed to be taken captive.
shipped to the Americas, brought to England, and then brought back to West Africa to improve diplomatic relations after those princes had been captured.
And they went right back to slave trading.
And you would think that somebody who had seen it, who experienced it for themselves, would say, my God, I'm not going to do this anymore.
But there you have what we might think of today as class privilege.
I mean, I'm not supposed to be enslaved.
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