Merchants in fine suits rode in carriages or on sedan chairs while enslaved people lugging carts and crates wore dirty, threadbare clothing and could be publicly whipped or burned to death for misbehavior.
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Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
9 June 2026
An American flag hangs at the front of Mohammad Ghafari’s Shater Abbass Bakery & Market along Westwood, where crates of pomegranates, oranges, watermelon and other fruit and vegetables crowd the sidewalk.
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