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“Slave trader.” It’s one of the most loathsome expressions in the English language. Even enslavers claimed to recoil at that designation in the era when slavery flourished. Andrew Jackson took umbrage at being called a “negro-trader” during the bitter presidential election of 1828, even though the slaves he bought and sold as a young man as part of the burgeoning interstate trade in enslaved people helped make him rich. Jackson’s slave trading followed the pattern of many financially ambitious men at the dawning of the nineteenth century something done long enough to amass enough capital to buy a plantation and become a comfortable, respectable enslaver and then never mentioned again. By the time Jackson became president, he enslaved almost 100 people but hated being called a slave trader. ....