Paul J. Polgar, Standard-Bearers of Equality

dans les pages du Liberator, le leader abolitionniste amricain William Lloyd Garrison revient en ces termes sur la fondation de son journal antiesclavagiste, Boston, trois ans plus tt : At that time, there was scarcely a man in all the land who dared to peep or mutter on the subject of slavery; the pulpit and the press were dumb; no anti-slavery organizations were made; no public addresses were delivered; no reproofs, no warnings, no entreaties were uttered in the ears of the people; silence, almost unbroken silence, prevailed universally. [] Well, without a single friend to stand by me, without encouragement, and without a subscriber,-and admonished on all hands how much injury I was doing,-I commenced the Liberator 1

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