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spazzmann

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Tue Jan 1, 2013, 11:05 AM Jan 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on January 1, 1831

William Lloyd Garrison first published The Liberator (four hundred copies printed in the middle of the night using borrowed type), which became the leading abolitionist paper in the United States. He labeled slave-holding a crime and called for immediate abolition. http://bit.ly/UiEbqj

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