Dominic Sandbrook
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Yeah, it's possible.
The British government has turned abolitionist.
Yeah, because this is the nightmare that haunted the original Ku Klux Klan, isn't it?
In that series that we did after the Civil War.
I commend him for his objectivity.
Because everything has changed, because the British government is now committed to abolitionism.
we will catch up with you or you will die.
I mean, it works both ways though, doesn't it?
Of course.
I mean, that's kind of maybe the, that's poetry.
Double meaning.
So maybe his attitudes evolved.
It's kind of generated by an anxiety that white and black Americans can never live together.
I mean, I suppose that...
It sounds like this is a man who thinks a lot about slavery and liberty.
And I guess it has many different shades of meaning.
Often, particularly in America, those shades of meaning are in direct conflict with each other.
So perhaps he couldn't resolve those ambiguities.