“Most striking, however, was the position taken in the 1840s by William Lloyd Garrison and his wing of the abolitionist movement. The Garrisonians had come to agree completely with the southern view of the Constitution as a proslavery document.5°” — Don E. Fehrenbacher Copy Share Image
“By the time of the Revolution there was in each colony an accumulated body of slave law that did not so much establish slavery… — Don E. Fehrenbacher Copy Share Image
“Most striking, however, was the position taken in the 1840s by William Lloyd Garrison and his wing of the abolitionist movement. The Garrisonians had… — Don E. Fehrenbacher Copy Share Image
“The framers of the Constitution, dealing with slavery as an incidental but troublesome circumstance, ended by extending it a kind of shamefaced recognition that… — Don E. Fehrenbacher Copy Share Image
“During observance of the bicentennial of the Constitution in 1987, Justice Thurgood Marshall made a public attack upon the celebration in which he disparaged… — Don E. Fehrenbacher Copy Share Image
