{"id":1394,"date":"2007-06-30T09:36:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T14:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/1394"},"modified":"2007-06-30T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T14:36:35","slug":"the-cause-of-the-freedmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/the-cause-of-the-freedmen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cause of the Freedmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>December 30, 1864<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The abolition of slavery in this country is the release of a population as large as that of all New England from a tyranny which crushed all the rights and claims of human nature at a blow; which left to its victims nothing but the capacity to suffer, and the absolute duty to be submissive to their pretended owners as though they were created to be &#8216;yoked with the brute and fettered to the soil&#8230;emancipation, therefore, meets them just where slavery leaves them &#8211; in need of everything that 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