We see our free coloured citizens incarcerated in Southern prisons, or sold on the auction-block, for no other crime than that of being found on Southern soil; and we dare not call for redress.
Garrison condemns the imprisonment and sale of free Black citizens in the South, calling for justice.
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No alliance with Abolitionists, either in Church or State!" The issue is clear, explicit, determinate.
No insult or outrage, no deed of impiety or blood, on the part of the South, can startle us into resistance, or inspire us with self-respect.
Convince me that liberty is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming fire.
A million of slaves were ready to rise and strike for freedom at the first tap of the drum.