In praise of the British Empire for abolishing slavery worldwide

And in search of real American leadership today

“I saw in every [British] man a recognition of my manhood, and an absence, a perfect absence, of everything like that disgusting hate with which we are pursued in [the United States]” [Frederick Douglass commenting on the lack of racism in the UK when he arrived in 1845.  Source: Stauffer, “Abolition and Antislavery, p.564]