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It was only a peculiar and almost fortuitous commingling of moral, political, and economic motives that eventually crushed African slavery and its handmaid, the slave-trade in America.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois points out the complex interplay of various motives that ultimately led to the end of slavery in America.
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