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28 Aug 2019 Conversations with Tyler Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature
“I don’t know the data on whether more were bought and sold, but certainly the slave market and the slave economy was such that there was an infrastructure to support buying and selling on a regular basis.”
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- Hollis Robbins
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- 28 Aug 2019
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…Harriet Beecher Stowe — she’s also objecting to so many slaves having been bought and sold. Is that a practice that is being stepped up as the nation becomes more commercial, as there’s more infrastructure, more transportation? I don’t know the data on whether more were bought and sold, but certainly the slave market and the slave economy was such that there was an infrastructure to support buying and selling on a regular basis. The depictions of slave auctions were by the end of the 1840s and the 1850s common in depictions of slave narratives. What did slave traders try to do to make their slaves acquiesce peacefully into being sold?…
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