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Slavery had then existed in this country more than two hundred years, yet scarce a man could be then found so bold and so reckless as to proclaim it just and righteous, a humane, a Christian institution.
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Tompkins notes the historical reluctance to openly justify slavery as a moral institution despite its long existence.
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