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We may say, then, that the farming colonies checked the slave-trade primarily from economic motives.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “We may say, then, that the farming colonies checked the slave-trade primarily from economic motives.”
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Du Bois argues that economic motivations played a significant role in the resistance to the slave trade in farming colonies.
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