Britain’s campaign against slavery was expensive in both lives and money
There was a time when the better off flaunted their status by buying mansions, driving fancy cars, and wearing top hats. Today privilege is commonly assumed to be shameful. Western elites now prefer to sport superior moral status by championing fashionable “progressive” causes. These are “luxury beliefs” because they cost the elites nothing, while costing others a lot. One such cause is that of “decolonisation”, which defames Britain’s four-hundred years of colonial endeavour as a simple litany of racism, exploitation, and oppression – of which slavery is the epitome.
