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We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them… — Lydia Maria Child

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We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

Lydia Maria Child
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans · 1833
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AbolitionismSlaveryOppression
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Political literature
Time
1833
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Lydia Maria Child
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Child, Lydia Maria. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833, ch. 6.

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