On the record
It is, and it always has been, the absolute supremacy of the Slave Power over the whole country--nothing more.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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gutenberg.orgWilliam Lloyd Garrison: “It is, and it always has been, the absolute supremacy of the Slave Power over the whole country--nothing more.”
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Garrison asserts that the dominance of the Slave Power is the true nature of the American political landscape.
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