Comments by "Fred Bloggs" (@fredbloggs5902) on "How the three centuries of the transatlantic slave trade became ‘the’ slave trade" video.

  1. Slaves of Arabs were usually castrated. This is probably why they don’t have the problems that America has today.
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  2. I suspect the fictional character considered the most romantic of all time, Mr. Darcy in Pride & Prejudice probably inherited his colossal wealth as a result of the ‘slave trade’ and/or compensation from the abolition of it. This would make an interesting video. Tim Harford/‘More or Less’ did an analysis of Darcy’s wealth, it’s astonishing.
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  3. The native Americans on the ‘trail of tears’ took their slaves with them.
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  4.  @nigelsheppard625  good point, so he didn’t get compensation at the time of the book. However we know: 1) He wasn’t royalty or landed gentry 2) He received his income from investments Please explain how a person in 1820 would have become the 10th richest person in the country while not being landed gentry, in any other way than slavery.
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  5.  @carpediem5882  I haven’t read it, any chance of a synopsis?
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  6.  @weewilliewinkle  True, but not to the point of being the 10th richest in the entire country.
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