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In particular, slavery was allowed in some states, but prohibited in others, and the 1787 compromise to count each slave as three-fifths of a person when determining a state’s population for representation and taxation was fraying.

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How can one distinguish a donation that is voluntary and altruistic from one that is forced or coerced from, for example, a submissive spouse, an in-law, a servant, a slave, an employee?

And my family brought in a woman whose mother had been a slave to take care of me.

But you're a slave of that first flash.

It goes from slave trade to over-consumption of sugar with some sweet moments in between.

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