For his whiteslave master, the sale was just "business as usual."
对他的白人奴隶主来说,这样的出售只是“日常买卖”。
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He longed to tell white tourists thronging Washington that the Capitol had been built by slaves, and that Pennsylvania Avenue had held a slave market, "right by where the Smithsonian is".
Michelle Obama had a great-great-great grandfather who was white and may have been the master of a black slave known as Melvinia, living in South Carolina.