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Comments

[jason taylor]

Actually I can see why Dickens might have hated the Antislavery movement(if he really did). Activists can be a little,well, active. And if it seems paradoxical for someone like Dickens, well one might recall that it takes one to know one.

More important, he couldn't see real slaves. Slavers would not have regularly stopped at London(Amazing Grace aside). And being blind about what is beyond ones sensory range is a common flaw.

Then to he could have simply disliked slave trading but thought abolitionists irritating.

[Gina]

The point is that Cavanaugh doesn't make any sort of case for the claim. He just throws it out there with virtually no evidence at all.