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When criticizing slavery, first as colonists and then as revolutionaries, americans were referring to?

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They were criticizing the political category of slavery. This was because it ran against the idea that the government should not be in the business of arbitrarily denying the rights of an entire group of people simply because of the color of their skin.
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