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172 into the times of yore, and in imagination mingle in the silent, mournful procession of the bereaved of olden ages! There you will behold the cultivated Greek slave and the rude Cappadocian chained hand to hand. Race-discriminationists would discover by history that slaves have been of all colors, hues, creeds, and faiths in the earlier days of antiquity. They would learn that in the most boasted civilization of the ancient world, when the Roman Empire was at its height, Britain, Gaul, Scandinavia, Sarmatia, Germany, Dacia, Spain, the different countries of Africa from Egypt to the Troglodytes of Ethiopia, the Western Mediterranean Islands, Sicily, Greece, Illyria, Thrace, Macedonia, Epirus, Bithynia, Phrygia, and Syria furnished the bloody butchers of mankind, in ancient days, with their contingent of human flesh, regardless of age, sex, color, faith, race, or previous condition of civilization, refinement, crime, or barbarism.