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— David Brion Davis"We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor."
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There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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