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2023-07-28 11:28:03 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 5175CE39CEE27C76BA26F52076A7ABF16BF0D942B8E878A9DD638F95AEAB2C51
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The source above was provided by a university to investigate justifications for the slave trade. Tarleton was a slave trader/owner who, in the passage, also argued that Africans had no objections to the slave trade and that white laborers were incapable of cultivating land. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/people/lt-col-banastre-tarleton
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