No compensation whatever for their past unrequited toil; no redress for their multitudinous wrongs; no settlement for sundered ties, bleeding backs, countless lacerations, darkened intellects, ruined souls!
Garrison highlights the lack of justice and reparations for the suffering endured by enslaved people.
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How were they to sustain an assault from England or France, with the cancer at their vitals?
How can they administer the same Government, or legislate for the same interests?
It is, and it always has been, the absolute supremacy of the Slave Power over the whole country--nothing more.
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