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#21 Whose America?: Prologue

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The Trade in Men Was Big Business

Ruthless agents called spirits openly kidnapped men, women and children on the streets of bristol. One man said that he had spirited away 500 persons a year for 12 years. The best estimates suggest that at least 50 thousand convicts were shipped to america in this period. Political prisoners defeated soldiers, irish priests, quakers and other dissenters completed the cast of characters for the white servant trade drama.

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