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David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World Quotes: We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.
         

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.


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