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There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

...I observed how careful they all were not to say anything that might wound my feelings. How gratifying this was, can be fully understood only by those who have been accustomed to be treated as if they were not included within the pale of human beings.

There may be sophistry in this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.