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July 12, 2015 10:55 pm PDT
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British history of slave ownership
Slavery was outlawed in the British Empire in 1833, decades before the U.S. Civil War. The outcome: relative historical obscurity, leaving Britain’s 17th and 18th century luminaries untarnished by their ownership of other human beings. [Guardian]
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