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How women helped sustain the slave trade

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Stephanie E. Jones Rogers is one of the winners of this year's Dan David Prize, awarded for outstanding historical scholarship. In her book, They Were Her Property, Stephanie explores how women were directly involved in the trade and ownership of enslaved people. She says that slave-owning women have received relatively scant attention in the historical scholarship.

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