“Don't we hear nowadays objections on the part of the labor unions to importing goods from China, which are made with slave labor? Is the existence of slave labor not a reflection upon the idea of a free commercial society?”

— Harry V. Jaffa

2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), Rebuttal

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American historian and collegiate professor 1918–2015

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