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“Blessed be sleep! It visiteth all alike, descending as the dews of heaven on the bond and free.”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

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“It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him.”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

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“one knee, with a groan, I released my hold upon his throat,”
― Solomon Northup, 12 Years a Slave

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― Solomon Northup, 12 Years a Slave

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“Strange as it may seem, within plain sight of this same house, looking down from its commanding height upon it, was the Capitol. The voices of patriotic representatives boasting of freedom and equality, and the rattling of the poor slave's chains, almost commingled. A slave pen within the very shadow of the Capitol!”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

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