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— Abraham Lincoln"I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day."
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Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.
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