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He sold the people to utter extirpation, for the sum of four hundred thousand pounds.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “He sold the people to utter extirpation, for the sum of four hundred thousand pounds.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke denounces the sale of people to their doom for monetary gain, illustrating the moral depravity of such actions.
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