S2. 3. The Domestic Slave Trade with Joshua D. Rothman
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In this episode we speak with Joshua D. Rothman, author of The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America. The book focuses on the firm of Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, whose slave-trading operation was the largest and most powerful in U.S. history—and which had a principal office in Natchez.
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