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My Bondage and My Freedom

CHAPTER XXV
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I can appeal to them, as strongly by their regard for the slaveholder as for the slave, to labor in this cause.

I am here, because you have an influence on America that no other nation can have.

You have been drawn together by the power of steam to a marvelous extent; the distance between London and Boston is now reduced to some twelve or fourteen days, so that the denunciations against slavery, uttered in London this week, may be heard in a fortnight in the streets of Boston, and reverberating amidst the hills of Massachusetts.

There is nothing said here against slavery that will not be recorded in the United States.

I am here, also, because the slaveholders do not want me to be here; they would rather that I were not here.


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