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  • When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

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    Herman Melville (1963). “Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver”

  • Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

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    Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.268

  • When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!

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    1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.132.
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Herman Melville

  • Born: August 1, 1819
  • Died: September 28, 1891
  • Occupation: Novelist
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