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To drive coffles of slaves from here to Oregon, in the middle of the nineteenth century, is more infamous than it was to bring cargoes of slaves from Africa here, in the middle of the eighteenth.
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Mann condemns the act of transporting slaves in the 19th century as more reprehensible than the historical slave trade from Africa.
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