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kleinbl00  ·  1696 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hit pause, click a dot and "read more"

My knowledge of the slave trade is "it's bad" "it killed a lot of people" "it made Europeans rich" and "haiti is a shithole because they rebelled and were cut off economically forever."

I should probably remedy that. The third book of The Expanse is shit anyway.





b_b  ·  1696 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Quick Wikipedia-ing says that NO was more a hub for slave trading within the US after the ban on the international slave trading. Speaking of, however, it's pretty eyebrow raising how many ships came to the US after 1807. As we said yesterday, a law is only as good as its enforcement.