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In the 1830s abolitionists split over the fundamental meaning of the Constitution as either a pro-slavery or anti-slavery document.

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Two known abolitionists, William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, once allies, split over the Constitution. Garrison believed it was a pro-slavery document from its inception but Douglass strongly disagreed. So it is true
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