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Making Sense of Moral Change—Asterisk

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A conversation about abolitionism, moral progress, and the pitfalls of historical counterfactuals.

Making Sense of Moral Change—Asterisk A conversation about abolitionism, moral progress, and the pitfalls of historical counterfactuals. Asterisk: Your book Moral Capital is about why the movement to abolish the slave trade in Britain happened in the late 1780s and not earlier. Would you mind briefly walking through the thrust of that argument? Christopher: While it’s not easy to boil down the entire book, essentially, there’s a group of people who gather in the late 1780s and commit themselves to convincing British authorities to abolish Britain’s slave trade. The book explains how that group

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