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History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts. It's the collection of all the

stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. Welcome to the History

Unplugged Podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual

stories that made our world what it is. I'm your host, Scott Rank.

A few years ago on this podcast, I did a multi-episode series on slavery throughout

history from the ancient world and basically the beginnings of human civilization up until

emancipation in the United States in 1865. One of the questions that historians dealt

with with slavery in the New World was was slavery inevitable, where there simply too

many cash crops like sugar cane or cotton that required a lot of labor and the manpower shortage

was so great that slavery essentially had to happen or was slavery a conscious choice

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