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cjrl-2324	Johnson Jr., Herman N.	From Status to Agency: Abolishing the “Very Spirit of Slavery”	2019	96	.pdf	application/pdf	31543	1252	49	In the Americas, the primary purpose of slave labor was the production of staple commodities – sugar, coffee, tobacco, rice, cotton, gold, and silver – for sale on world markets. In the North, slave labor initially competed with free laborers for artisan positions in urban areas.255 Northern states never became complete slave societies.	cache/cjrl-2324.pdf	txt/cjrl-2324.txt