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He was an economic liberal who freed his own slaves, but a political conservative.
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John Wilkes Booth has his own statue for his assassination of the president who freed the slaves.
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Mr. MOSLEY: And he has to learn to love himself, and, in learning to love himself, he has to learn to love his fellow slaves for what they are and what they've experienced, and he has to learn to understand his own experience, in relation to those slaves, and in relation to white America at that time also.
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When the prince of Egypt, for just his own sense of rage and righteousness, killed a taskmaster and was banished for taking the side of the slaves, only then did his real origin become clear to those around him.
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Braced by the righteousness of his cause the unequivocal emancipation of the slaves this Massachusetts gentleman of the white and learned class had earned a reputation among his own as a lunatic.
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