📖 🎙️ **Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World**

"_Over time, English observers started to assert that the common customs of enslavement among the nations of Africa fit within the Roman model. Englishmen had initially expressed reluctance to take part in the Atlantic slave trade. But once assured that the slave trade could be traced back to customs they understood to be legitimate, they proved keen to profit from it._"

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