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Roundup

January 13, 2008

End of slave trade meant new normal for America [audio 11min]

Two hundred years ago this month, the United States abolished the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Eric Foner, a historian at Columbia University, takes listeners inside the historical moment tied to one of America's darkest eras.

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