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The development of the moral principle which pronounced slavery a crime of man against his brother-man had not yet reached the conscience of Christendom.
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “The development of the moral principle which pronounced slavery a crime of man against his brother-man had not yet…”
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Quincy points out that the moral condemnation of slavery had not yet fully influenced the conscience of the Western world.
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