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At a subsequent day Congress branded the slave-trade as piracy, and thus, by solemn legislative act, adjudged this compromise to be felonious and wicked.
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He notes that Congress later condemned the slave trade as piracy, thereby denouncing the earlier compromise as immoral.
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