Slavery
“A lot of books talk about slavery as something that just happened in the South and ended in 1865. I felt like there could be a book about how the North was making more of the profit and was in some ways more responsible morally, politically, and financially than the South.”
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Oh yes, they thought that to treat human beings like livestock was backward and doomed and obsolete and unscientific and fatally inefficient, but if any of them thought it was indefensibly cruel and morally intolerable, they show no awareness by the evidence of this book.
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In this valuable study, Caitlin Rosenthal isolates an assortment of business practices and technologies that reflect the sophistication of New World plantation economies — dispelling myths of their romantic crudeness.
Read MoreIt is not surprising that Wendy Warren strains to find words to “comprehend the rank tragedy that resulted from enslavement.”
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