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Part Two: Thomas Thistlewood: Slave Plantation Owner and Diarist

Behind the Bastards

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How Reading Fueled Thistlewood's Actions

Discussion of how Thistlewood used texts to rationalize his sexual assaults and marked harvests by raping enslaved women.

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