Going back a little more than 200 years, would it have recommended supporting the anti-slavery movement? Presumably it would agree that abolishing slavery was good, but the evidence that the movement would work would not be there beforehand, and it might have seemed very unlikely to succeed.
Another question: Would it have supported Christian missionary efforts because of education/healthcare they spread? Would it instead have competed with such efforts?
(I am assuming that we are talking of an organisation founded in the Western world. What a Chinese GiveWell in the 19th century would have done I have absolutely no idea about.)
Going back a little more than 200 years, would it have recommended supporting the anti-slavery movement? Presumably it would agree that abolishing slavery was good, but the evidence that the movement would work would not be there beforehand, and it might have seemed very unlikely to succeed.
Another question: Would it have supported Christian missionary efforts because of education/healthcare they spread? Would it instead have competed with such efforts?
(I am assuming that we are talking of an organisation founded in the Western world. What a Chinese GiveWell in the 19th century would have done I have absolutely no idea about.)
Mayyybe it would have bought slave’s freedom one by one instead? (I don’t know; just speculating)
If that was done before the slave trade was abolished it would have encouraged the enslavement of more people.
Good point, and GiveWell would probably have figured that one out