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What was driving slavery?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Money and lazyness. People didn't want to do their own work so they would get slaves to do their work for them so they could get the money without even moving there behind from their comfy air chair in their house while the slaves work as hard a physiclly possible.

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