Charles Sumner: “The fetters of every slave within these jurisdictions are bound and…”

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The fetters of every slave within these jurisdictions are bound and clasped by the votes of Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts

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He asserts that Massachusetts shares in the guilt of slavery through its political actions.

More from Charles Sumner

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.

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Charles Sumner: “The fetters of every slave within these jurisdictions are bound and clasped by the votes of Massachusetts.”