The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of … - Gerrit Smith

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It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

Gerrit Smith

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

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We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

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But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

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True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

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To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

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It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

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