Olaudah Equiano
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Writer and abolitionist (c. 1745 to 1797), known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa, who was enslaved in the Americas and bought his freedom in 1766;…
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Enslaving people strips them of half their virtue and teaches them fraud and cruelty, then blames them for dishonesty (opens korrents.com)
“When you make men slaves you deprive them of half their virtue, you set them in your own conduct an example of fraud, rapine, and cruelty, and compel them to live with you in a state of war; and yet you complain that…”
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The slave trade hardens the people who deal in it; slave dealers are not born worse than other men (opens korrents.com)
“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…”
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The slave trade violates the first natural right of mankind, equality and independence (opens korrents.com)
“Surely this traffic cannot be good, which spreads like a pestilence, and taints what it touches! which violates that first natural right of mankind, equality and independency, and gives one man a dominion over his…”
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Enslaving people strips them of half their virtue and teaches them fraud and cruelty, then blames them for dishonesty (opens korrents.com)