"So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery."
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Harriet Beecher Stowe et al, in: Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly, Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878, p. 10.
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