How truly affecting are the words of Homer, depicting the wife of Hector toiling as bondwoman at the looms of her Grecian master,--or those other undying words which exhibit man in Slavery as shorn of half his worth!
Sumner reflects on the poignant imagery from Homer about the plight of enslaved individuals, emphasizing the loss of dignity in slavery.
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Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.
Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.
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