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Blacks and the US Constitution
“On 4 July 1854, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison addressed a large Independence Day gathering at Framingham, Massachusetts. One month earlier, a federal tribunal in Boston had ordered Anthony Burns, a fugitive from slavery, to be returned to his Virginia owner. Garrison had a long established reputation for . . .” read more