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A 4 page paper which examines what power society should have over an individual as seen in William Lloyd Garrison’s “Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention.” No additional sources cited.
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the nation needed to pay close attention to the problem of slavery, see the Africans as Americans, and set them free. His plea illustrates aspects of how and why it
was wrong to enslave the African American. The following paper examines how society has a power over the individual, or should have a power over the individual, who is going
against the foundations of the nation. Power and Society In Garrisons speech, or essay, he begins by illustrating that the forefathers of the nation struggled to relieve the
people from a foreign oppression, the British, and won their freedom. He emotionally urges listeners to realize that they should not be proven inferior in such ideals when it comes
to any needs in the society. He indicates that the people who struggled did so physically and that people in his time "shall be such only as the opposition of
moral purity to moral corruption -- the destruction of error by the potency of truth -- the overthrow of prejudice by the power of love -- and the abolition of
slavery by the spirit of repentance" (Garrison, 1833; 271). In this he is illustrating that the society has the power to urge and control action as it involves
the individual who is clearly going against foundations of the nation and the forefathers. Social practice involved keeping slaves and engaging in slave trade. This, however, does not make it
right and Garrison is pointing this out, indicating that as Americans the society holds an obligation, a moral obligation, to not fall victim to the abuse and oppression of others.
He states, in relationship to the individual, "that no man has a right to enslave or imbrute his brother -- to hold or acknowledge him, for one moment, as
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