Can't comment on the CAR but in his closing statement he says something to the effect that slaves would have been better off under British rather than American rule. I'd love to know his rational for that statement, since especially if we accept the rather compelling arguments made in Moral Capital, the American revolution was a major factor in the end in the slave trade (in Britain and the United States), gradual ending of slavery in the northern states, loosening of manumission laws, and an explosion of manumissions in the years following the revolution. Arguments that it would have been better had Britain won for the slaves usually center on the fact that Britain ended slavery 30 odd years before the United States, but this is a rather stupid argument as it ignores the fact that slavery would have been able to wield substantially more political influence within the British empire had the Southern region of the United States remained within British rule.