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Ben Franklin's World — 422: Plantation Goods: How Northern Industry Fueled Slavery
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422: Plantation Goods: How Northern Industry Fueled Slavery

Ben Franklin's World · 422

When we talk about slavery in Early America, we often focus on plantations: their large, fertile fields, their cash crops, and the people who labored on those fields to produce those cash crops under conditions of enslavement. But what about the ordinary objects that made slavery work? The shoes, axes, cloth, and…

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