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What! is it going too far to ask, for those who have been outraged and plundered all their lives long, nothing but houseless, penniless, naked freedom!
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Editor's note · Context
Garrison passionately argues for the basic right to freedom for those who have suffered under slavery.
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I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together.
How can they receive the same baptism, be admitted to the same communion-table, believe in the same Gospel, and obtain the same heavenly inheritance?
And whom will a just God hold responsible for all these results?
Every slave is a stolen man; every slaveholder is a man-stealer.