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“War is horrible, but slavery is worse, and you may be sure that the British people would rather go down fighting than live in servitude.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 74f577bf1536c40e02b71cb36515f6515c036ec6d07ea36740398514b79d1cb5
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