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African Slavery Advantages
I agree with you on that there is no benefits being a slave but if you compare slavery in the south to the north. You can see that the northern enslave African have little bit more benefit than the southern enslave African did such as they have more valuable skills due to them being solid to master to master and can hire themselves out of their free time and get paid for their skills, that a lot of southern enslave African couldn't
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