It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.
-- Gerrit Smith
   
Gerrit Smith   Name:
Gerrit Smith
Type:
Politician
Nationality:
American
Birth:
March 6, 1797
Death:
December 28, 1874
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