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Men who commit acts declared by the whole civilized world to be piracy, you permit to escape, while you say you will hang the man who circulates Helper's book.
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Tompkins condemns the hypocrisy of allowing pirates to escape punishment while targeting those who promote anti-slavery literature.
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Resolved, that the abolition of domestic slavery is the greatest object of desire in these colonies, where it was improperly introduced in their infant state.
Calumny and vituperation held high carnival in the legislative halls of this great nation.
Such was the sentiment of North Carolina in 1774, as to the evil and great wrong of slavery.
If slave labor, then, is profitable, slaveholding is equitable.
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