bsmall2Mar 23, 2025

> The use of the car, the burning of fossil fuels, the making of war, the arrogance of empire — few institutions or ways of life were more “human,” more essential to our nature, than slavery. In the piece that follows, Adam Hochschild takes us back to the first great human-rights campaign in history — the movement to end slavery in the British Empire.

https://tomdispatch.com/adam-hochschild-history-to-the-rescue/

#AdamHochschild #BuryTheChains #TomDispatch

bs2Feb 15, 2024
> It was really Toussaint's war. He had to scrounge for supplies, trading coffee and rum to American smugglers for barrels of gunpowder. French republican officials in the colony, despite their speeches about the rights of man and #Toussaint's protestations of loyalty to France, were increasingly uneasy with a black man as the de facto leader of much of the territory. They suspected that he had independence on his mind.
#AdamHochschild in #BuryTheChains #CaribbeanHistory #SlaveRevolt