On the record
Everywhere to do homage to it, to avoid collision with it, to propitiate its favour, is deemed essential--nay, is essential to political preferment and ecclesiastical advancement.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Garrison argues that political and religious institutions prioritize appeasing the slaveholding interests for their own gain.
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