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Are we not suffering our own hands to be manacled, and our own feet to be fettered, with the chains of slavery?
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “Are we not suffering our own hands to be manacled, and our own feet to be fettered, with the chains of slavery?”
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Quincy questions whether society is willingly accepting the constraints of slavery upon themselves.
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