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William Lloyd Garrison: “Address to the Friends of Freedom and Emancipation in the United States”

( 1844 ) Commentary by James Brewer Stewart, Macalester College

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existing national compact the Constitution
Mason and Dixon’s line part of the borders between Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (then part of Virginia), surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the 1760s, which became the boundary between free and slave states
nail your banners to the mast! fly your flags!
revolutionary ground should be occupied by the moral high ground belongs to

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