The impact of the descent into extremism of French Revolution in July 1793 reverberates today in Toronto in the re-naming of a major city street (Dundas St.) In April 1793, Henry Dundas had sponsored a bill to end slave trade in British empire. Today Dundas is being canceled 
2/ for supposedly prolonging slave trade for decades. In fact, Dundas' 1793 bill, amended to put an end date of 1796 instead of 1800, was first bill passed in Commons to end slave TRADE (slavery already illegal in Britain itself), but defeated in Lords.
3/ an amendment for an earlier end date was defeated in Commons. Yet today's ahistorical partisans somehow blame Dundas for failure to end slave trade in April 1793. When issue was raised again in 1796, Britain was embroiled in war with revolutionary France.
4/ the madness that consumed France in 1793-94 had a counter-revolutionary impact on Britain. The April 1793 moment was gone.
5/ correction: Dundas' bill was in April 1792, not 1793; and Simcoe's bill was 1793, not 1794.
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