Unfashionable Truths
Edward CampbellA Realist’s Reckoning with Morality, History, Power, and Human Nature
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The Forgotten History of Islamic Slavery
Arab and Berber Slave Traders.
I. The Sultan’s Letter
In 1842, the British Consul General in Morocco approached the court of Sultan Abd al-Rahman and asked the following question: what progress had the Sultan made toward ending...
Conquest Everywhere: Africa Was Not Outside History
I. The Kingdom Built on Human Bones
In 1850, a British naval officer named Frederick Forbes arrived at the royal court of Dahomey bearing a simple message: end the slave trade. King Ghezo received him with ceremony, listened with patien...
Kinship: What Travels, What Doesn’t
In Part I of this II part series, I argued that kinship intensity is the most underrated variable in social science. The argument focused on places—Sicily, Ghana, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East—and what happens to economic and politica...
Kinship: The Enemy of Progress
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The Empire That Fought to End Slavery
“A contest, not of brutal violence, but of reason.” — Thomas Clarkson, 1808
A Royal Navy ship from the West Africa Squadron—evoking the enforcement of abolition at sea.
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Ex–Wall Street strategist interrogating the myths we live by. History, morality, and power told straight. Brutal truths. Realism over ideology.
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