Charles Sumner: “The Proslavery interest was strictly personal and pecuniary, and had…”

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The Proslavery interest was strictly personal and pecuniary, and had its source simply in the self-interest of individual slaveholders.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner contrasts the self-serving nature of proslavery interests with the broader antislavery movement.

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