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She could have emancipated every slave, long ere this, had she been upright in heart and free in spirit.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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gutenberg.orgWilliam Lloyd Garrison: “She could have emancipated every slave, long ere this, had she been upright in heart and free in spirit.”
Editor's note · Context
He asserts that the North had the power to end slavery long before it did, had it acted with integrity.
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