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“O, ye nominal Christians! might not an African ask you, learned you this from your God?”
Source: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (London, 1789), vol. I, chapter II
Context Describing the sale of newly landed captives in Barbados, where relatives were sold apart and never saw each other again, he turned to address slave-owning Christians directly.
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