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They fancy themselves more generous and noble-hearted than the plain freemen, who labor for subsistence.
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “They fancy themselves more generous and noble-hearted than the plain freemen, who labor for subsistence.”
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Quincy comments on the self-perception of slaveholders compared to free laborers.
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