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That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the councils of Omnipotence I cannot doubt.
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the councils of Omnipotence I cannot doubt.”
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Quincy expresses his belief in the inevitable end of slavery as part of a divine plan.
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