How women helped sustain the slave trade
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The Responses of Slave Owning Women to Emancipation
Slavery was their primary form of wealth. They begin to be quite violent towards enslaved people, some in prison enslaved people so they can't run away. When emancipation is a reality, some of them wish to die. Some try to create circumstances of pseudo slavery. And then some relinquish their ties to the institution.
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