[Question] I’m interviewing historian of abolitionism Christopher Brown. What should I ask him?

This week I’m interviewing Christopher Brown — history professor at Columbia University — about the movement for abolition.

How did it happen? Why did it take off where and when it did? What were the key events that helped it build momentum? Was it inevitable, or historically contingent?

What should I ask him?

Even if you haven’t read his work, Professor Brown is quoted a number of times in the relevant chapters or MacAskill’s ‘What We Owe The Future’.

Some other sources for his views include: