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Lesson 6 Document 7 Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention in Philadelphia written by William Lloyd Garrison 1833 "We further maintain - That no man has a right to enslave or imbrute his brother to hold or acknowledge him, for one moment, as a piece of merchandise to keep back his hire by fraud or to brutalize his mind by denying him the means of intellectual, social and moral improvement.The right to enjoy liberty is inalienable. To invade it, is to serve the prerogative of JEHOVAH. Every man has the right to his own body to the products of his own labour to the protection of law and to the common advantages of society. It is piracy to buy or steal a native African, and subject him to servitude. Surely the sin is as great to enslave an AMERICAN and an AFRICAN." William Lloyd Garrison, Selections from the Writings and Speeches of William Lloyd Garrison. Boston. R. F. Wallcut, 1852, p 63 |
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