Jonathan Poletti
1 min readAug 26, 2020

I'm struck, likewise, by his just verbalizing the old programming with no finesse at all. Even John Newton thought slavery was bad!- but by this calculation, it was good to bring them over to America. The slave trader becomes a missionary!

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