Elsewhere, the (British) Library said that although the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge had expressed antislavery views himself and had recorded those views in his poetry he was on the blacklist nonetheless because he was recorded as having a nephew who lived in Barbados and worked closely with estates where there were slaves. The sins of the father is a familiar problem, but the sins of the people known to the nephew is a new form of associative guilt.
- Douglas Murray, The War on the West
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