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Slaves were people who worked for rich landowners and were given poor treatment and bad living conditions. It was a inhumane circumstance for a person to go through and it lasted for 200-300 years. The two articles describe slavery but they have some differences that set them apart; one article talks about a slave auction that happened in 1846 while the other describes the trouble in which a country trying to get over it’s terrible past. Here are some similarities between the two articles.
The two articles are similar because they haves the same topic. Both of the articles are giving information on slavery and explaining it’s past. “For more than 200 years, powerful kings in what is now Benin captured and

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