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Henry McNeal Turner: The seeds of...

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The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by the enlivening dews of God's clemency, till the reapers [abolitionists] shall shout the harvest home.

Source: On the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863.
-- Henry McNeal Turner, ( 1834-1915), US legislator, minister; He was elected to the Georgia legislature during Reconstruction, but Southern Democrats attempted to deny him his seat.


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