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The hapless Africans, allured with hopes of freedom, forsook their owners, and repaired in great numbers to the royal army.
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He highlights the plight of enslaved Africans who sought freedom by joining the British forces during the war.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
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