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)

West Africans and Europeans who drove the trade were equally evil. (View Post)

No one has seriously attacked or defended Gibbon for decades, because it's generally accepted that, great writer though he was, most of his judgements were wrong. I won't deny that I find q… (View Post)