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Des Moines County, Iowa Anti-Slavery Society minutes and declarations, 1844-1845
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[-] the heart broken wife from her weeping husband at the caprice or pleasure of irresponsible tyrants For the crime of having a dark complexion they suffer the pangs of hunger the infliction of stripes and the ignominy of brutal servitude they are kept in the heathenish darkness by laws expressly enacted to make their instruction a criminal offence These are the prominent circumstances in the condition of more than two millions of our people the proof of which may be found in thousand of indisputable facts and int he laws of slave [-] holding states Hence we maintain That in view of the civil and religious privleges of this nation the quilt of its oppression is unequaled by any other on the face of the earth and therefore That it is bound to repent instantly to undo the heavy burdens to break every yoke and to let the oppressed go free We further maintain that no man has a right to enslave or imbrute his brother[-] to hold or acknowldege him for one moment as a piece of merchandise [-] to keep back his hire by fraud or to brutaliz his mind by denying him the means of
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[-] the heart broken wife from her weeping husband at the caprice or pleasure of irresponsible tyrants For the crime of having a dark complexion they suffer the pangs of hunger the infliction of stripes and the ignominy of brutal servitude they are kept in the heathenish darkness by laws expressly enacted to make their instruction a criminal offence These are the prominent circumstances in the condition of more than two millions of our people the proof of which may be found in thousand of indisputable facts and int he laws of slave [-] holding states Hence we maintain That in view of the civil and religious privleges of this nation the quilt of its oppression is unequaled by any other on the face of the earth and therefore That it is bound to repent instantly to undo the heavy burdens to break every yoke and to let the oppressed go free We further maintain that no man has a right to enslave or imbrute his brother[-] to hold or acknowldege him for one moment as a piece of merchandise [-] to keep back his hire by fraud or to brutaliz his mind by denying him the means of
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