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William Lloyd Garrison

CHAPTER VIII
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COLORPHOBIA Garrison's Abolitionism was of the most radical character.

It went the whole length of the humanity of the colored race, and all that that implied.

They were, the meanest members, whether bond or free, his brothers and his sisters.

From the first he regarded them as bone of his bone and blood of his blood, as children with him of a common father.
Poor and enslaved and despised to be sure, wronged by all men, and contemned by all men, but for that very reason they were deserving of his most devoted love and labor.

He never looked down upon them as wanting in any essential respect the manhood which was his.


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