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Speaker or author: Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873

Newspaper or publication: Liberator

Speech delivered denouncing the legal decision made by Judge Taney. The speaker encouraged his audience to adopt the motto, "No Union with Slaveholders." He said he would rather see the union divided than to give up the fight for freedom and the cause of human liberty.

Description of file(s): PDF 4 page, 960 word document (text and images)

Date published: 1857

Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Civil rights; Slavery; United States--History--19th century

Keywords: anti-slavery; Constitution; court; Declaration of Independence; Europe; freedom; Great Britain; humanity; Judge Robert Brooke Taney; Kansas; law; Massachusetts; property; revolution; slaveholders; union; Wendell Phillips

People: Phillips, Wendell; Taney, Judge Robert Brooke

Publication type: Newspapers; Speeches

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