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[338] might prefer, on the following terms: A was to have first wish, and whatever A received was to be doubled to B. A promptly wished for the loss of one eye. ‘Are our slaves,’ wrote Jefferson to John Adams, ‘to be presented with freedom and a dagger?’ The so-called freedom had been bestowed and the dagger had not been drawn.

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