135 Julie Holcomb, Moral Commerce: The Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy

Summary: If early Americans desired slaves mostly to produce sugarcane, cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco, what would happen if Europeans and early Americans stopped purchasing those products?
 Would boycotting slave-produced goods and starving slavery of its economic sustenance be enough to end the practice of slavery in North America? Julie Holcomb, author of Moral Commerce: The Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy, leads us through the transatlantic boycott of slave produced goods.