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Why should there not be twenty, thirty, fifty Slave States, as well as fifteen?
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William Lloyd Garrison
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gutenberg.orgWilliam Lloyd Garrison: “Why should there not be twenty, thirty, fifty Slave States, as well as fifteen?”
Editor's note · Context
Garrison provocatively questions why the number of slave states should be limited, highlighting the absurdity of the argument against expansion.
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