Industrialization
Abolition wasn’t fueled by just moral or economic concerns – the booming whaling industry also helped sink slavery
Abolition wasn’t fueled by just moral or economic concerns – the booming whaling industry also helped sink slavery An engraving of whalers at sea attacking a whale with a harpoon from 1820. Kean Collection/Getty Images Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or […]
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