INTLSTD 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Olaudah Equiano, Pennsylvania Abolition Society, Middle Passage
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Why should those who are not within our circle of we matter: adam smith"s little finger (there is a problem with the moral claim of strangers) We do care for strangers because in the mid-18th century a major intellectual, cultural, and political infrastructure grows up in support of humanitarians. Humanitarianism the organized efforts to alleviate suffering of other humans. A simply chronology of the abolitionist movement: pennsylvania abolition society (1775, the case of john somersett (1772, london, judge lord mansfield, ruling was that slavery is illegal according to british legal tradition) The story of a slave who had been purchased in boston, and was taken by his master to london where he escapes and is put into prison. We see that some people are quite sympathetic to this case and start asking questions. First person narrative of one who bought his freedom and wrote his own account of the middle passage.