Appropriate Quote by Ned Sublette

“On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom.”

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Appropriate Labor New orleans Ownership Payment Purchasing Slave Trade

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