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How come slaves in the US didn't just walk off the farm while their "owner" was asleep? Or at the very least go in and kill the prick? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

FWIW,

wq:African Slavery in America

(my bold)

This essay originally appeared in the Postscript to the Pennsylvania Journal and the Weekly Advertiser, Philadelphia, March 8, 1775, signed "Justice and Humanity".

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TO AMERICANS.

THAT some desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men by violence and murder for gain, is rather lamentable than strange. But that many civilized, nay, christianized people should approve, and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising; and still persist, though it has been so often proved contrary to the light of nature, to every principle of Justice and Humanity, and even good policy, by a succession of eminent men,[1] and several late publications.