Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 · Boston, J. P. Jewett and company; Cleveland, O., Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; [etc., etc.] · leaf 40
34 WHITE SLAVBBY through Europe the praise of his name. It is probable that, in this expedition, the Emperor was governed by motives little higher than those of vul- gar ambition and fame; but the results with which it was crowned, in the emancipation of so many of his fellow-Christians from cruel… … This was in 1535. Only a few short years before, in 1517, he had granted to a Flemish cour- tier the exclusive privilege of importing four thousand blacks from Africa into the West Indies. It is said that Charles lived long enough to repent what he had thus inconsiderately done J Certain it is, no…
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