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It has been 4 months since my daughter got married to our new european son-in-law. No one was opposed to the idea at first, but the plantation is much more quiet now that they have moved to the guest house on the edge of the plantation. “This massive expansion of the enslaved population of the Americas was all made possible, of course, by the transatlantic slave trade. In some regions, however, the enslaved population began to increase with the birth of children born on the plantations and planters came to rely less and less on arrivals from Africa.” (Fredrick 2).
The two of them moved into a small structure on the perimeter of the plantation and have been given a portion of the slaves. “ Yet, the rights of slaveholders were nonetheless

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