What is “Western Civilization”?

Barbaric Civilizing Empires

Anti-slavery editors on England and Russia during the Crimean War

L.D. Burnett
6 min readFeb 6, 2021

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Photo by Raul Varzar on Unsplash

For those familiar with the history of abolitionism and anti-slavery politics in the Transatlantic world, it probably comes as little surprise that American anti-slavery newspapers took the side of the English and the other…

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L.D. Burnett

Writer and historian from / in California’s Great Central Valley. Book, “Western Civilization: The History of an American Idea,” under contract w/ UNC Press.