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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.
Gerrit Smith
Gerrit Smith
Gerrit Smith
Born: Mar 6, 1797
Died: Dec 28, 1874

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