… by degrees, soften the national bigotry, if I may so call it, so far as to admit of some discourses on the … to proclaim liberty to the captive, and the opening of the prison-doors to them that are bound.” Much good, both to the … them than their forts.” I am, &c. W. D. … Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition … …