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William Lloyd Garrison: “But how long it is to curse the earth, and desecrate his image, he alone foresees.”

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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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Garrison contemplates the duration of slavery's curse on humanity.

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