How women helped sustain the slave trade
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The Importance of Women in the Slavery Trade
In a time when women were not granted much financial independence and freedom, one of the ways that they could get that was through investments in the slave trade. Women had to kind of buy into this system. They may not have been able to vote. But they could own enslaved people. And because of the profound impact that slavery had on the South, this was enough to get them to buy into the institution.
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