Fourth of July .. Are Abolitionists Awake?

” Fourth of July ..  Are Abolitionists awake? … Are they sincere in their professions of sympathy for the slaves?  If so, they will embrace every possible opportunity for pleading their cause.  On this day we are still permitted to speak of liberty, emancipation and equal rights. Let us embrace it with as much eagerness as if we each of us had a brother now toiling beneath the lash of a master ….”  (Liberator,  June 25, pg 3)

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