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Abolitionist View on Slavery and Labor Laws
The speaker decries slave status under state law, noting slaves are owned for all intents and purposes, with brutal control over life, earnings, contracts, and mobility. He cites punishments for reading or teaching slaves, and recounts firsthand accounts from Virginia and Kentucky highlighting systemic cruelty and resistance of abolitionist thought.
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Minon
Maria Child
King George's Co. Way
Harper's Ferry
Browe
Virginia
Amanehupette
Charlestown
Jefferson County
George Turner
Col
Washington
Beckham
Gov. Wise
Brown
North
M. J. C. Mason
Weltegrievonsnnes
Uys
Uae
Ray
Wien
sAualvald
Bowie
Lafayette
Carolina
Georgia
South Carolina
Gaines
Isaac
William Gray
Sane
Raines
Agai
Court of Appeals
Sarh M. Grimke
Grimke
Supreme Court of
South
Carol
Angelina Grimke
Egypt
Mlle
Angelina
Thorne
Kentucky
Tonabe
Anid
Tam
Stra Ie Mattia Griffith
Eaniwoky
Lintaie
Geo ‘Ucker, J
Professor Nin
Giles
Renee Eid
Jefferson
John Randolph
Seattle
Jobn Brown
Hincks
British West Indies
Blochy
John Browns
New England
Christ
Hias
Gromgh
Ling
Bran