18: La Amistad (Roundtable on HTDS 37)
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Greg, Josh, and Cielle hash out the international slave trade … in a time when it’s not suppose to exist. La Amistad provides a perfect, horrific example of the illegal transatlantic slave’s continued existence after 1808 and the challenges the 19th-century United States faced as slavery became an increasingly divisive issue.
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