John Brown justified the slave trade in November 1786 by arguing that Black people were an inferior race incapable of surviving as free people, that enslaved people were better off in America exposed to Christianity and civilization than in Africa, and that the slave trade was the most lucrative commerce in the world.

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• Person: Not available Organization: Brown University
  Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Brown University

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• Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Brown University slaveryandjusticereport.brown.edu Brown University via serper

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