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In the days of slavery every negro believed it right to steal, for was he not stolen, bodily, from himself?
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “In the days of slavery every negro believed it right to steal, for was he not stolen, bodily, from himself?”
Editor's note · Context
Reid argues that the mindset of theft among enslaved individuals was a product of their circumstances.
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