Philip Hone

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered. ↗

— Philip Hone

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They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable. ↗

— Philip Hone

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