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Des Moines County, Iowa Anti-Slavery Society minutes and declarations, 1844-1845
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intellectual social and moral improvements The right to enjoy liberty is inalienable to invade it is to usurp the prerogative of Jehovah. Every man has the right to his own body[- to the products of his own labor[-]to the protection of laws[-]and to the comon advantages of Society It is piracy to buy or steal a native of Africa and subject him to servitude Surely the sin is as great to enslave an American as an African Therefore we believe and affirm that there is no difference in principle betweent he African slave trade and American slavery and that every american citizen who retains a human being in involuntary bondage as his property is [(]according to scripture[)] a man stealer That the slave ought instantly to be set free and brought under the protection of law; that if they had lived form the time of Pharoah down to the present time[strike through] period and had been entailed through successive generations their right to be free would never have been alienated but their claim would constantly have arisen in solemnity sub[????] [strikethrough]
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intellectual social and moral improvements The right to enjoy liberty is inalienable to invade it is to usurp the prerogative of Jehovah. Every man has the right to his own body[- to the products of his own labor[-]to the protection of laws[-]and to the comon advantages of Society It is piracy to buy or steal a native of Africa and subject him to servitude Surely the sin is as great to enslave an American as an African Therefore we believe and affirm that there is no difference in principle betweent he African slave trade and American slavery and that every american citizen who retains a human being in involuntary bondage as his property is [(]according to scripture[)] a man stealer That the slave ought instantly to be set free and brought under the protection of law; that if they had lived form the time of Pharoah down to the present time[strike through] period and had been entailed through successive generations their right to be free would never have been alienated but their claim would constantly have arisen in solemnity sub[????] [strikethrough]
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