
Slavery in the Northern Colonies
Lectures in History
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Samuel Sebel and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
C-Span: Samuel Sebel was involved in the transatlantic slave trade. He says he wrote an anti-slavery poem and distributed it privately among like-minded friends. But when his wife found out that he held these ideas, she dumped him for a different man. C-Span asks how similar are their arguments about slavery to those made today?
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