Hope, after ten years of the Liberator

The January 1, 1841 issue of the Liberator begins with A New Volume. Some excerpts:  “We commence, this day, the eleventh volume of the Liberator.  Ten years, therefore, have transpired, since we unfurled our standards to the breeze.  Would to heaven that there were no longer any occasion for it!  … that liberty had been proclaimed to all the inhabitants of the country!  … that an end had been put to slavery and the slave trade forever!   But, alas! more than half a million of victims have been added to the slave population during the brief period, and nearly as many have gone down to the grave and to the bar of God, as swift witnesses against the white inhabitants of the land! …. Yet not in vain have we lifted up the banner of emancipation.  Hundreds of thousands have rallied under it, determined t ‘do or die’ for the abolition of slavery, and a mighty work of preparation for an approaching jubilee has been accomplished … In less than ten years, we hope to record the final emancipation of every life now groaning on our soil….”

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