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William Lloyd Garrison: “By the Declaration of Independence, he is pronounced a man-stealer.”

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By the Declaration of Independence, he is pronounced a man-stealer.
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William Lloyd Garrison

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Garrison invokes the Declaration of Independence to label slaveholders as criminals against humanity.

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