William Lloyd Garrison: “My singularity is, that when I say that Freedom is of God, and Slavery…”

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My singularity is, that when I say that Freedom is of God, and Slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say.

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Garrison boldly states his belief that freedom is divine while slavery is evil, underscoring his moral stance.

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But how long it is to curse the earth, and desecrate his image, he alone foresees.

The more the South reflected, the more clearly she must see that she has a deep and vital interest in maintaining the Union.

Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?

Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.

William Lloyd Garrison: “My singularity is, that when I say that Freedom is of God, and Slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say.”