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The slave trade hardens the people who deal in it; slave dealers are not born worse than other men
Drawn from what Olaudah Equiano said
What Olaudah Equiano actually said
- Olaudah Equiano Writer and abolitionist (c
Such a tendency has the slave-trade to debauch men's minds, and harden them to every feeling of humanity! For I will not suppose that the dealers in slaves are born worse than other men—No; it is the fatality of this mistaken avarice, that it corrupts the milk of human kindness and turns it into gall.
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↗The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)gutenberg.org
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