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Hardly a protest against slavery was made, and human rights as we now know them were in embryo, so far as the practice of them was concerned.
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Beveridge remarks on the lack of protests against slavery and the nascent state of human rights in America.
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No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
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