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Slavery is anathema, but it was not always so. It was quite possible for well-meaning
and rational people to practice and defend the “peculiar institution.” Certainly this was
the case in the Antebellum South. The thousands engaged in the capture, transport,
trade, possession, and control of millions of Africans could not have reconciled
themselves to the economic, political, intellectual, cultural, and social structures that
supported and maintained slavery without a compelling rationale. Slave… Continue