Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "Douglas Murray - How Slavery Became a Moral Question" video.

  1. The moral question was much older and had been answered for the North-Western European societies. The moral issue was whether to extend those values to overseas business in different cultures or just adapt to local customs and profit from it. The Dutch calvinists in charge of the early WIC (Dutch West-Indies Company) loathed slavery as a catholic sin because all people were children of god, blacks could have a career in the WIC and often ended up marrying Dutch women in church. Only when it became hard to run a former Portuguese plantation colony called Brazil without slaves in 1637, there was a biblical excuse prepared that blacks were descendants of Ham and a Portuguese slave fort in Africa was captured too. The British were top down protestants, so they tended more towards biological excuses and extending their classism. But they also developped towards more control over those different parts of the word, as direct rulers. Of course when you are in control of the situation there, the question how to handle all the people pops up more than when you are just doing business with the local rulers. Power comes with the responsibility to answer moral questions. Double standards or the same standards throughout the British Empire?
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