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The slave trade: unfinished business
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SLAVERY was the family business for the Longs of Cornwall. Edward Long, born on August 23 1734, was a slave owner and he himself was the son of a slave owner.
His family presided over what they regarded as their property, the plantation and the people who were forced to work without wages on it, from the mid 17th century. There is no evidence to suggest that Long ever wavered from his commitment to the institution of slavery and the belief that the Africans he believed to be his were anything other than inherently and vastly inferior to white people.
Edward Long is best known for his book History of Jamaica, written in 1774. Less a historical work than a diatribe of pseudo-scientific racism.
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