"Believing, as we do,that men should never do evil that good may come; that a good enddoes not justify wicked means in the accomplishment of it; and thatwe ought to suffer, as did our Lord and his apostles,unresistingly—knowing that vengeance belongs to God, and he willcertainly repay it where it is due—believing all this, and that theAlmighty will deliver the oppressed in a way which we know not, wedeprecate the spirit and tendency of this Appeal… We do not preachrebellion—no, but submission and peace."

How would Nat Turner have likely responded to this view on abolitionism?

• a.)

  Turner would have rejected Garrison's belief in a Christian God.

• b.)

  Turner would have agreed with Garrison's call for a nonviolent movement to end slavery.

• c.)

  Turner would have approved of Garrison's goal, but not his method for achievingit.

• d.)

  Turner would have viewed abolitionists as doing more harm to his cause than good.

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