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The blue monsters of the deep became familiar with her pathway, and, not more remorseless than she, they shared her plunder.
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This quote compares the ruthless nature of the slave trade to the predatory behavior of sea creatures.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
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