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Wretched people; they ignore that it is more glorious to die free on a rope, or torn to pieces by dogs in the public square, than to feast with the Neros in slavery.

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Slavery is a kind of social leprosy: it has often been abolished by legislators and restored by education under various aspects.

A law is a social monument, a page of history, a lesson in ethnography, a reason for state.

I am an abolitionist, without reservation; I am a citizen; I believe I have done my duty.

The slave who kills his master, in any circumstance, always does so in self-defense.

Under the law, the crime of murder perpetrated by the slave on the person of the master is justifiable

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