In this remarkable book Adrian Desmond and James Moore, world authorities
on Darwin, give a completely new explanation of how Darwin came to his famous
view of evolution, which traced all life to an ancient common ancestor. Darwin
was committed to the abolition of slavery, in part because of his family.s
deeply held beliefs. It was his .Sacred Cause. and at its core lay a belief in
human racial unity. Desmond and Moore show how he extended to all life the idea
of human brotherhood held by those who fought to abolish slavery, so developing
our modern view of evolution. Desmond and Moore argue that only by understanding
Darwin.s Christian abolitionist inheritance can we shed new light on the
perplexing mix of personal drive, public hesitancy and scientific radicalism
that led him finally in 1871 to publish The Descent of Man, and Selection in
Relation to Sex. The result is an epoch-making study of this eminent Victorian.

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