"How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Samuel Johnson, "Taxation No Tyranny," 1776. It was a fair question, no?
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Easy to say "case closed" about other people's suffering.
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And yet, ironically, abolitionism in England was (as I understand) spurred largely by the American Revolution and its ideas.
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(And also in France.)
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