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Just emerging from a condition of slavery in which their labor had been constantly exacted without fee or reward of any kind, it was impossible that they could be the owners of any thing except their own bodies.
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Blaine emphasizes the economic struggles faced by newly freed African Americans who owned nothing but their own bodies.
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