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Indigenous Slavery in the Atlantic
"The capture, enslavement, and exchange of Indigenous peoples of the Americas predates contact between Indigenous Americans, Europeans, and Africans. Indigenous Americans incorporated captives into diverse communities in culturally specific ways..." – By Miller Shores Wright
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Antislavery and Abolition in the Spanish American Mainland
"One of the major changes that was produced by the wars of independence and the consequent foundation of new republics across the Spanish American mainland during the first five decades of the 19th century was the abolition of slavery..." – By Marcela Echeverri
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In November 2023, 72 full new articles, 11 revised, 0 summary articles, spread across 19 subjects have been published on the Oxford Research Encyclopedias platform.
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