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Without one of these measures the political power of the former slave-masters would be enlarged by Emancipation.
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He warns that without certain measures, the political power of former slaveholders would increase post-Emancipation.
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Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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