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