Even with slavery, though, I think racism developed very differently in individual countries. The UK never had the US South's obsession with the "one drop" rule. French and Spanish pla… (View Post)

For sure, and I think it's still very much a live ethical issue. Should a free State trade with a State that uses slave labour, disguised or not, or has other appalling working practices? (View Post)

The whole love affair that a part of the radical right has for Putin is revolting. Marjorie Taylor Greene no doubt has fantasies about him. (View Post)

There will also be descendants of the slave owner who inherited little or nothing, and now live ordinary lives, and descendants of the slave, who prospered, and the longer the period of time, the mor… (View Post)

I think there is truth to the argument that the profits from slavery provided some of the capital that drove industrialisation. But, it's not, by any means, the whole of the story. And, in the l… (View Post)