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'''As you were researching this book, what surprised you the most?'''
[[File:William_Lloyd_Garrison_by_Southworth_and_Hawes,_c1850.png|thumbnail|200px|William Lloyd Garrison : advocate for free trade and the abolition of slavery]]
The most surprising discovery was the close relationship between Victorian free trade ideology and transatlantic abolitionism. This led me to answering a question I hadn’t thought to ask: What happened to US abolitionists once American slavery was abolished?
