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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.
-Patrick Henry
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Patrick Henry
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.
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As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. the only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. i do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; i mean direct slavery, the slavery of the blacks in surinam, in brazil, in the southern regions of north america. direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. … slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance.
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A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in north america, many of the pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [virginia legislators] have petitioned the king for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. this request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.
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