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The Marquis de Lafayette

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“I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.”


Lafayette, as quoted in a letter by Thomas Clarkson (October 3, 1845), published in The Liberty Bell (1846), p. 64.

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