How women helped sustain the slave trade
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Women's Economic Investments in the Institution of Slavery
Women are largely missing from the traditional sources that have been used about the slave trade. Were women involved in that process much? Do we know? Absolutely. There were actually women who bought and sold enslaved people as a business. They profited from that business. For example, one woman in New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States south, she partnered with her nephew to buy and sell enslaved people.
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