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"Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune"
- Charles de Secondat
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Charles de Secondat
between January 18, 1689 and February 10, 1755. He/she was a famous
Philosopher
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