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“Go to Dahomey, Ashantee, Caffraria, Malaisia,—anywhere; search out the rudest people on earth; draw a picture of its vices and cruelties, make it as black as you can, and we will parallel it by pictures of Greece under Pericles and of Rome under Cicero.”

— Edward Thomson

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