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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Nobody had ever...

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Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

Source: The Minister's Wooing, ch. 1 (1859).
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe, (Jun 14 1811-1896), US author; She aroused considerable anti-slavery feeling before the Civil War with Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852.


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