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William Lloyd Garrison: While a slave remains in his fetters, the land must have no rest.

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While a slave remains in his fetters, the land must have no rest.
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William Lloyd Garrison

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Garrison asserts that as long as slavery exists, the land cannot find peace, reflecting the moral turmoil it causes.

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