Carolina QuotesWhat was special about America was not that it had slavery, which existed all over the world, but that Americans were among the very few peoples who began to question the morality of holding human beings in bondage. That was not yet a majority view among Americans in the 18th century, but it was not even a serious minority view.
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"The Scapegoat for Strife in the Black Community" (7 July 2015), National Review
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- 2015
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