Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another? (Mary Astell)

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

Mary Astell

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