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Maybe I should ask you for evidence then? I have provided a source, as requested, which shows first hand that horrible mistreatment was widespread. You counter seem to be…your own gut feeling?

You may not know it, but you and GP are parroting a common slavery-apologist myth that slaves were treated well becuse they were expensive. This a blantantly contradicted by first hand accounts by former slaves and by mortality statistics.



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