Above all, Africa will feel it; and the surpassing duty which Civilization owes to this whole continent, where man has so long degraded his fellow-man, will begin to be discharged, while the voice of the Great Shepherd is heard among its people.
Sumner stresses the moral obligation to uplift Africa, which has suffered from historical injustices.
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