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In this case, too, as in others,

we should do great injustice

if we supposed that

Prince Henry [of Portugal] had

any of the pleasure of a slave-dealer

in obtaining these

Negroes.

It is far more probable that

he valued them

as persons capable of furnishing

intelligence, and, perhaps, of becoming

interpreters for his future expeditions.

Not that without these special motives,

he would have thought it any thing but

great gain

for a man to be a

slave

if it were the means of bringing

him into communion with the Church.

Arthur Helps, 1856

Memling, 1470

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