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5m60qr48q17	Joshua Abram Kercsmar	The Politics of Husbandry: Managing Animal and Slave Labor in England and America, 1550-1815	2014		.txt	text/plain	309	11	38	As Britons on both sides of the Atlantic saw the improvement of nature as a mercantile rather than moral endeavor, and thus treated slaves as commodities, eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century century humanitarian reformers came to criticize slavery and animal cruelty alike. While colonists were slow to adopt British innovations as they related to animals, they supported and appropriated them in their interactions with Africans.	cache/5m60qr48q17.txt	txt/5m60qr48q17.txt