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"A fair picture of the view of the society towards the
present state of the Negro in society”
"it is notorious
that the marriage tie is almost unknown, — and the closest bonds of kindred are
liable, at every moment, to be broken asunder; — where the Sabbath day brings
neither its sanctity nor its peaceful repose to the degraded Negro, — where the
Slave is exposed, the unprotected victim of brutal passions, and caprice of the
basest of our race; — all this presents a picture calculated powerfully to
awaken the sympathies of our nature" (Resolutions no 4, 1823).
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