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That is the real question between the ministers of America and Great Britain: whether slave-traders, pirates, by merely hoisting the American flag, shall be saved from capture.
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “That is the real question between the ministers of America and Great Britain: whether slave-traders, pirates, by merely…”
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He identifies the core issue in negotiations with Great Britain as whether American-flagged slave traders should be protected from capture.
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