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I ask, my lords, whether the revengeful temper, attributed by poetic fiction only to the bloody African, is not surpassed by the coolness and apathy of the wily American?
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Franklin critiques the perceived coldness and cunning of American behavior compared to poetic depictions of revenge.
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