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These signs were, from one point of view, evidences of moral awakening; they indicated slow, steady development of the idea that to steal even Negroes was wrong.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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This passage suggests that the gradual recognition of the wrongness of slavery was a sign of moral progress.
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