Against All Odds: How Slavery Was Ended
I don’t usually read Mother Jones (I’ve better
things to do than read fascist claptrap—I
use fascist
advisedly),
but it has a
top-notch history
of the anti-slavery movement in Britain. Their achievement was
really quite remarkable: in less than 80 years slavery went from being
accepted over the entire world to being illegal in the entire civilised
sphere. When they started, slavery was just accepted as part of life;
by the time they finished it was universally unacceptable.
The story gives hope to those of us who would fight other seemingly impossible battles. The anti-infanticide movement in particular should learn from the fight against slavery. Infanticide is considered a perfectly acceptable practise by much of the world right now, but a lot can change in a few years. Eventually, reason wins.
