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“Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free! They touch our country, and their shackles fall.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b529cf237ffe8411323937bfb75e7183217a8d28e84ba65ff18f03a78724139c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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