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This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.

Source: Letter from England to Wendall Philips, in The Liberator, 22 Nov 1849.
-- William Wells Brown, ( 1815-1884), US antislavery lecturer, novelist, playwright; His Narrative, the story of his escape from slavery; is a classic; first black author to write a novel, Clotel, and play, The Escape.

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