Not Made By Slaves

What if the moral problems of global capitalism - problems like slavery - could be solved by global capitalism? What if all it took was convincing consumers that buying ethical goods was good for their bottom line? These were the questions that anti-slavery business owners set out to answer at the end of the eighteenth century.

Not Made By Slaves argues that idea that consumers are ultimately responsible for capitalism’s ethics —and that consumers will only respond to self-interest — was the result of the businesses that tried to make the end of slavery profitable across the 19th century.

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