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unusual facts about Necessary Evil


Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent

Originally, Mr. Frank is an abolitionist at heart, but comes to believe that slavery is a necessary evil, for while it is wrong, the slaves themselves are better off under their Southern masters than they are in the North.



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Ester Sowernam

In Ester Hath Hanged Haman Sowernam finds that Swetnam has incorrectly stated that the Bible is the source of the statement that women are a necessary evil and finds that the true source is in EuripidesMedea.

Thomas Bennett, Jr.

In light of the slave rebellion led by Denmark Vesey in 1822, Bennett came to view the institution of slavery as a necessary evil.