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In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

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William Weld
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 31
Lawyer
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Politician
Smithtown
New York
William F. Weld
William Floyd Weld
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Slavery
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Greatest
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