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How Did Slave Traders and Slaveholders Live With Themselves?

Commerce in people as commodities to be traded for money or other commodities was completely taken for granted in the "enlightened" North Atlantic world of the 18th century.

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Enlightenments: Absent Engaged Hearts, Brilliance and Barbarism Can Happily Cohabit

For slaveholders, commerce in people as commodities to be traded for money or other commodities was completely taken for granted in the “enlightened” North Atlantic world of the 18th century.

And then, during the revolutionary decades of the 1780s and 1790s, something totally unanticipated emerged within the belly of the world’s most powerful empire as people turned away from slaveholders.

How did slave traders and slaveholders live with themselves?

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