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How a French Atheist and an American Abolitionist Ended Up Creating a Christmas Classic

‘THE SLAVE IS OUR BROTHER’

O Holy Night’s verse, written at a time when the transatlantic slave trade was ongoing, was overtly anti-slavery.

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