Garrison said this, speaking before a colored convention in Philadelphia: “I never rise to address a colored audience without feeling ashamed of my color, ashamed of being identified with a race of men who have done you so much injustice and yet retain so large a portion of your brethren in servitude.” (Source: Robert V. Remini, in Portraits of America, by Stephen Oates.
Garrison’s personal “white” contrition
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