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