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William Lloyd Garrison on Slavery

1805–1879 United States

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We have a natural right, therefore, to seek the abolition of slavery throughout the globe.

I will say, finally, that I despair of the republic while slavery exists therein.

It is an abuse of language to talk of the slavery of wages... We cannot see that it is wrong to give or receive wages.

Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012)

Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell; involving both parties in atrocious criminality, and should be immediately annulled.

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