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A recent NPR podcast claimed that Samuel Adams was a conspiracy theorist who thought that the British empire wanted to enslave the colonists. Is this true? What kind of slavery was he thinking of, and did it differ from chattel slavery of African people?

by /u/cordis_melum in /r/AskHistorians

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