On the record
If slaveholding is not wrong under all circumstances, why have you decreed it to be so, within the limits of your State jurisdiction?
Said by
William Lloyd Garrison
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gutenberg.orgWilliam Lloyd Garrison: “If slaveholding is not wrong under all circumstances, why have you decreed it to be so, within the limits of your State…”
Editor's note · Context
Garrison points out the hypocrisy of laws against slavery while still allowing it in other jurisdictions.
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