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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Mar 2019

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      Thread. 3 core drivers of early abolitionism: American Quakers, British evangelical Christians, & American revolutionary rhetoric. US revolution influenced those in Haiti & Latin America. US abolitionist themes influenced emancipation of Russian serfs. https://twitter.com/CarlPaulus/status/1108200673244577793 …

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Mar 2019

      As I've noted before, the American Revolutionary generation took a number of major steps against slavery.https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/11/john-kelly-civil-war-debate-tim-kaine-america-slavery/ …

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Mar 2019

      For an example of the influence of American abolitionism on forced labor abroad, consider Egypt. The corvee system of forced labor carried on the tradition back to the pyramids of slavery & forced labor in Egypt.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Mar 2019

      By the 19th century, the corvee was used for periodic episodes of forced labor on whatever projects the Egyptian leaders (or their Ottoman overlords) wanted. For the Suez Canal project, the Pasha forced masses of Egyptian labor to support the French dig.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Mar 2019

      European opinion, especially in Britain, was outraged, but the dig went on - but as soon as news reached Egypt of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863, the new Pasha ended the corvee on the Suez Canal. The French were forced to switch to steam-fed machines to dig.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Mar 2019

      The new Pasha had his own motives as well & didn't end the corvee on all Egyptian projects, but it was Lincoln's act that gave him cover to withdraw the forced labor of Egyptian peasant farmers & let them return to their families.

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        1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Mar 2019

          Eventually the British takeover of Egypt in 1882 eliminated the corvee entirely, consistent with the British attitude towards slavery worldwide. But in 1863, the influence of American example was a prominent part of the story.

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