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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. - Edmund Burke

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. – Edmund Burke

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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a strangers treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enrolld me, minds are never to be sold. – William Cowper

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There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. – George Eliot

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Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. – Maria Weston Chapman

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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