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#145 – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable

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The Abolition of Slavery was not an Inevitability

The abolition of the slave trade and emancipation were not inevitable, and were actually very unlikely due to the economic strength of the Atlantic slave trade and the economic value of slavery in the 19th century./nSlavery is as old as human history and took different shapes and different times in the past.

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