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Quotation from a letter from William Lloyd Garrison, [Boston, Mass.], to Benjamin Lundy, Jan'y 1831

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In the hand of another person. Whereabouts of original manuscript unknown.William Lloyd Garrison wrote to Benjamin Lundy: "We shall fare on bread and water a long time before we strike our flag. Whether we sink or swim in this new enterprise, we shall remain the unyielding advocates of the poor slave." This quotation is from a letter by William Lloyd Garrison to Benjamin Lundy, January 1831. The complete text of this letter was published in Genius of Universal Emancipation, Feb. 1831, p. 162.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  5. History
  6. Lundy, Benjamin 1789 1839
  7. Slaver
  8. United States

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