I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death
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You have seen how a man was made a slave you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.
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