Sarah Taber on Nostr: Here's the thing: the British Empire had abolished slavery in 1833 & was still ...
Here's the thing: the British Empire had abolished slavery in 1833 & was still feeling very holier-than-thou about it in the 1860s.
They weren't about going to war to save some other country's slavers from themselves.
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