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A Free Town

Human Resources by Sony Music

Nov 28, 202332:36Society & Culture

As abolitionist campaigns gained traction in the late 1700s, the population of formerly enslaved people grew. Those who had been enslaved in the British colonies were ‘freed’ - at first in dribs and drabs, then all at on...

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