Sentences with phrase «evil slave trading»

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Such misuse of reason, after all, was what gave rise to the slave trade in the first place and to many other social evils, not least the totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century.

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

It is not fair to beat up only on the catholic church... yes we all know about the inquision poroms the evil crusades slave trade and genocide of south americans by catholics... but Martin Luther s protestents followed suit with genocide of american indians the starvation of millions of irish catholics burnig of witches slavery in american south..