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Charles Sumner: “No good citizen who makes himself acquainted with Slavery can hesitate to join against it.”

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No good citizen who makes himself acquainted with Slavery can hesitate to join against it.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts that any informed citizen should oppose slavery.

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