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I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.


William Wells Brown


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For instance in an 1847 lecture to the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem Massachusetts he said "Were I about to tell you the evils of Slavery to represent to you the Slave in his lowest degradation I should wish to take you one at a time and whisper it to you. In freedom he took the names of Wells Brown a Quaker friend who helped him after his escape by providing food clothes and some money. Young.

William Wells Brown (November 6 1814 – November 6 1884) was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer novelist playwright and historian. After his freedom was purchased by a British couple in 1854 he and his family returned to the US where he rejoined the abolitionist lecture circuit.

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