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... trade , we are also called upon to support the African , and to let the stripes and stars of our boasted republic float anfurled to the breeze , at the mast - head of every pirate - craft which is engaged in the nefarious traffic . We ...
... trade , we are also called upon to support the African , and to let the stripes and stars of our boasted republic float anfurled to the breeze , at the mast - head of every pirate - craft which is engaged in the nefarious traffic . We ...
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... trade was directly contrary to the principles of humanity and justice , and that the state of slavery which followed it , however mitigated , was a state so improper , so degrading , and so ruinous to the feelings and capacities of ...
... trade was directly contrary to the principles of humanity and justice , and that the state of slavery which followed it , however mitigated , was a state so improper , so degrading , and so ruinous to the feelings and capacities of ...
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... trade finds no one bold enough now to defend even its memory . And yet when we hear the slave - trade reprobated , and slavery defended by the same persons , I must own I think the slave- trade unfairly treated . The abuse of defunct ...
... trade finds no one bold enough now to defend even its memory . And yet when we hear the slave - trade reprobated , and slavery defended by the same persons , I must own I think the slave- trade unfairly treated . The abuse of defunct ...
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