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We saw very little hope of accomplishing, by reason that the trade of this country lay wholly in slaves and ivory

[T]he pernicious and abominable abuse of selling slaves was yet continued … and requiring us to use our power to remedy the said abuse; which, notwithstanding we saw very little hope of accomplishing, by reason that the trade of this country lay wholly in slaves and ivory. ~ Alderano Cybo (1683)

Posted byRandy W. SandbergJune 21, 2010Posted in1600s, Antislavery, Humans

Slavery is an oppression on the mind

[Slavery is] an oppression on the mind. ~ William Edmundson (1676)

Posted byRandy W. SandbergJune 21, 2010Posted in1600s, Antislavery, Humans

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