How women helped sustain the slave trade
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The Relationship of Women to Property in the 1800s
The system of slavery defined enslaved human beings as property. So were women technically legally allowed to own enslaved people at the time? Fantastic question. I think it's really important to just give a little bit of context and background before we go any further, which is just about women's relationship to property at this time.
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