135 Julie Holcomb, Moral Commerce: The Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

Earlyrepublic, History, Benfranklin, Society & Culture, Warforindependence, Earlyamericanrepublic, Earlyamericanhistory, Education, Colonialamerica, Americanrevolution, Ushistory, Benjaminfranklin

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🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

If early Americans desired slaves mostly to produce sugarcane, cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco, what would happen if Europeans and early Americans stopped purchasing those products? 

Would boycotting slave-produced goods and starving slavery of its economic sustenance be enough to end the practice of slavery in North America?

Julie Holcomb, an Associate Professor of Museum Studies at Baylor University and author of Moral Commerce: The Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy, helps us explore answers to these questions by leading us through the transatlantic boycott of slave produced goods.

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0:27.0	Welcome to Ben Franklin's World, podcast about early American history with Liz Covart.
0:34.0	The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can affect the better future.
0:39.0	Ben Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people and events that have impacted and
0:44.4	shaped our present day world.
0:46.7	And now here's your host, Liz Koval.
0:49.4	Hello and welcome to episode 135 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:54.8	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American
0:59.7	past have shaped the present day world we live in.
1:03.0	If one of the key reasons that slavery developed in North America
1:06.0	was so that early Americans could grow and sell agricultural produce
1:10.0	like sugarcane, cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco.
1:13.4	What would have happened if Europeans and early Americans
1:16.1	had simply stopped purchasing that produce?
1:19.0	Would a boycott of slave-produced goods
1:20.9	have been enough to actually end the practice of slavery in North America?
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