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In 1845, William Lloyd Garrison published this essay in his newspaper The Liberator. He stated that the rights of man are inherent and undeniable and called for Northern secession from the Union: "By the dissolution of the Union we shall give the finishing blow to the slave system.”

With the threat of war growing more real by the day, Henry Jackson faces an impossible choice. Virginia is divided, with half the state poised to secede, leaving the Jackson family farm teetering on the border that will divide the north and south. He accepts the government’s promise of land and a fresh start in the untamed western territories to protect his wife and their three boys.

On May 31, 1843, William Lloyd Garrison, the famous abolitionist, proclaimed that slaves are not the property of their masters. He argued that God never made one human being to be owned by another and encouraged slaves to escape from the plantations on which they were confined.

In this 1832 essay, William Lloyd Garrison called on the people of the free states and New England to resist slavery with all their might. He argued that slavery would ultimately destroy the Union if not opposed.

"No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery" is an address delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, February 14, 1854. Garrison called for an immediate end to slavery and for all citizens to support this cause.