Jan 3, 2020

William Seward on Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

~ William Seward, U.S. Secretary of State, 1861-1869

William Seward
1873

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