On the record
By no precedent, no example, no law, no compact, no purchase, no bequest, no inheritance, no combination of circumstances, is slaveholding right or justifiable.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Garrison argues that there is no justification for slaveholding under any circumstances, emphasizing its inherent wrongness.
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