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... slavery also the author has just and pointed remarks , for which we cannot make room ; to the effect , that most slaves were glad to be engaged by their masters in a scandalous intrigue , because it generally secured good treatment to ...
... slavery also the author has just and pointed remarks , for which we cannot make room ; to the effect , that most slaves were glad to be engaged by their masters in a scandalous intrigue , because it generally secured good treatment to ...
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... slavery , on all Athenian citizens whose mothers were foreigners ; and that by it nearly 5000 free persons were actually sold into bondage ! So atrocious a deed is scarcely credible . + But , waiving the atro- city of it , Plutarch ...
... slavery , on all Athenian citizens whose mothers were foreigners ; and that by it nearly 5000 free persons were actually sold into bondage ! So atrocious a deed is scarcely credible . + But , waiving the atro- city of it , Plutarch ...
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... slavery by the priesthood , the public officials and nobility ; it seemed beyond the hope or possi- bility of deliverance from temporal and spiritual tyranny ; and therefore these people did homage in private to the very things which ...
... slavery by the priesthood , the public officials and nobility ; it seemed beyond the hope or possi- bility of deliverance from temporal and spiritual tyranny ; and therefore these people did homage in private to the very things which ...
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... slavery men ; nor do his selections for the chair at the annual meetings of the Wesleyan Missionary Society always escape animadversion . He may be influenced by the colour of men's politics as well as of their money ; but , in the ...
... slavery men ; nor do his selections for the chair at the annual meetings of the Wesleyan Missionary Society always escape animadversion . He may be influenced by the colour of men's politics as well as of their money ; but , in the ...
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... slavery , we must leave to that state what it considers the proper means . We will not pre - judge what we ought to do , in case that a national system of education should be carried by the estates of the realm . In the mean time , let ...
... slavery , we must leave to that state what it considers the proper means . We will not pre - judge what we ought to do , in case that a national system of education should be carried by the estates of the realm . In the mean time , let ...
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