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Gerrit Smith

Birthday: March 06, 1797
Deathday: December 28, 1874
Category: American Politician
Type: Politician
National: American

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It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

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