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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercis

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson

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