Not the man who stole their forefathers from Africa, but he who now holds them in bondage; no matter how they came into his possession, whether he inherited them, or bought them, or seized them at their birth on his own plantation.
She clarifies that the current slaveholder is as culpable as the original captor of slaves.
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