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The Moment Is Now: Carl Bernhard Wadström's Revolutionary Voice on Human Trafficking and the Abolition of the African Slave Trade is a multidisciplinary effort by leading international scholars to demonstrate the influence that Carl Bernhard Wadström (1746-99) and the leading reformers of his time have had over the years on issues concerning the slave trade, oppression, and racism. As its title makes clear, this book not only offers a glimpse into a significant
moment in history but also serves as a call to action and a primer to be used in the here and
now. The Moment Is Now is the twenty-second installment in the Swedenborg Studies scholarly series.
About the author
Anders Hallengren (editor) is a former Harvard history fellow, a research affiliate of Stockholm University in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, and a fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He served as president of the Swedenborg Society of London from 2011 to 2013, and he was vice president from 2013 to 2015. Anders has published books on Swedenborgian thought (
Gallery of Mirrors, 1998;
The Grand Theme, 2013), ethics and natural law (
The Code of Concord, 1994, doctoral dissertation), international law and African affairs (
Kuba i Afrika, 1984), and integration in a multicultural world of change (
Nobel Laureates in Search of Identity and Integrity, 2004); and he is internationally renowned for his Nobel essay "Nelson Mandela and the Rainbow of Culture," first published on September 11, 2001, by Nobelprize.org.
