Thomas Sowell has a fascinating column on a new book. It's titled Bury the Chains and it deals with the creation of the anti-slavery campain within Great Britian in the 1700's. Seems to be pretty good, especially when Sowell reviews it. He just has a good way of putting things. See for yourself:
The review of "Bury the Chains" in the New York Times tried to suggest that the ban against the international slave trade somehow served British self-interest. But John Stuart Mill, who lived in those times, said that the British "for the last half-century have spent annual sums equal to the revenue of a small kingdom in blockading the Africa coast, for a cause in which we not only had no interest, but which was contrary to our pecuniary interest."
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