His demand for immediate emancipation fell like a tocsin upon the ears of slaveholders.
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His demand for immediate emancipation fell like a tocsin upon the ears of slaveholders.
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It has been the policy of the slaveholders to keep entirely out of sight their own numerical inferiority, and to speak and act as if their interests were those of the whole community.
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