And this from someone who believes the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries is a form of light pollution.
And what a pity Jesus wasn't enlightened enough to say even one word against institutional slavery although he was surrounded by it.
Institutional slavey is one of world's oldest and greatest evils. Jesus could have followed the example of Spartacus (109-71BC) and opposed institutional slavery. But Jesus chose to remain silent and silence is complicity.
So we had to wait 1,800 years to the Enlightenment for institutional slavery to be abolished for the first time in human history by the House of Commons in 1833.
At which point we ordered the Royal Navy into the Atlantic to sink all American slave ships. And the Americans, discovering that discretion was the better part of valour, stopped transporting slaves across the Atlantic.
But nothing daunted, today the Americans are regaling us with a propaganda film called, "Lincoln". No expense is spared to leave us with the impression that President Lincoln freed the slaves, when in fact it was the guns of the Royal Navy that put an end to the Atlantic slave trade.
OK lets do this thing.
Institutional slavery was challenged by Jesus, evidence that it was not.
Institutional slavery was disappearing across most of the Roman Empire and Europe largely had abolished it under pressure from Christian campaigns and cultural underpinnings by the time it became an issue in the house of commons, made an issue incidentially there, not because of the enlightenment but because of the enduring Christian abolitionist cause which considered slavery unconscienable.
The Royal Navy had nothing to do with domestic slavery within the US, whether additional slaves were being transported from other countries or not is a moot point when it can exist and be reproduced within the borders of a massive country like the US.
Your historical revisionism is complete and utter bullshit.
If anything capitalism and development eradicated slavery, it became institutionally obsolete, neither the so called enlightenment nor political liberalism had anything to do with it, they've sure as hell had little to do with its reinvention and reintroduction globally, they've done a great job of greasing the wheels for a culture in which, particularly women and children, can be bought and sold.