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But I think it will take a good deal of evidence to convince him that one man owns another.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge F. Hoar: “But I think it will take a good deal of evidence to convince him that one man owns another.”
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Hoar expresses skepticism about the morality of slavery, highlighting the difficulty of convincing someone of the legitimacy of one person owning another.
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