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But how long it is to curse the earth, and desecrate his image, he alone foresees.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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gutenberg.orgBut how long it is to curse the earth, and desecrate his image, he alone foresees.
Garrison contemplates the duration of slavery's curse on humanity.
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Has an everlasting divorce been effected between cause and effect, and is it an absurd doctrine that, as a nation sows, so shall it also reap?
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