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No longer a chattel, he is a man,--justly entitled to all that is accorded by law to any other man.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “No longer a chattel, he is a man,--justly entitled to all that is accorded by law to any other man.”
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Sumner proclaims the transformation of a former slave into a man with equal rights under the law.
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