Charles Sumner: “And yet, with the truth flashing in their faces, our Slave-Masters…”

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And yet, with the truth flashing in their faces, our Slave-Masters misrepresent the sublime and beautiful act as a “failure”!

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Massachusetts

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Sumner criticizes slave owners for misrepresenting the act of emancipation as a failure despite its positive outcomes.

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