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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free.
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gutenberg.orgCydnor Tompkins: “Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free.”
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Tompkins asserts a strong belief in the inevitable freedom of enslaved people as a matter of fate.
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