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Disguise the truth as we may, and throw the blame where we will, it is Slavery which, more than any other cause, keeps us back in the career of improvement. It stifles industry and represses enterprize--it is fatal to economy and providence--it discourages skill--impairs our strength as a community, and poisons morals at the fountain head.
William Gaston Carolinian
Source
Address delivered before the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 20 June 1832; Documenting the American South, UNC
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- Address before the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies
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- 1832
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