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THE
 SLAVE-AUCTION.

 

‘Blush ye not

To boast your equal laws, your just restraints,

Your rights defined, your liberties secured,

Whilst, with an iron hand, ye crush to earth

The helpless African, and bid him drink

That cup of sorrow which yourselves have dashed,

Indignant, from Oppression’s fainting grasp?’