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Englishmen who have succeeded in making their nation hated in every part of the known world." Key's animus may have been fueled by his distaste for the presence of chattel slavery on campus. Students were forbidden from bringing individuals who were enslaved by their families with them to the university campus, but there were still numerous individuals who were enslaved that labored for faculty members or the university itself. Many of these enslaved individuals were victims of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the student body.
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in 1840. Cottrell appears to not have been legally freed, but lived and acted as a free woman. In 1850, when the status of a number of free Blacks in
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