M&D context
pynchonoid
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Sun Apr 10 10:52:24 CDT 2005
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1538074,00.html
[...] Slavery repelled him. He took a freed slave,
Francis Barber, into his house, and bequeathed him the
bulk of his estate. His opinion of Americans ("I am
willing to love all mankind," he confessed, "except an
American") stemmed partly from the colonists'
doublethink about freedom and slavery: "How is it that
we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the
drivers of Negroes?" [...]
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