Charles Sumner: “By his side is the master, who, in the debasing influences on his own…”

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By his side is the master, who, in the debasing influences on his own soul, is compelled to share the degradation to which he dooms his fellow-men.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner discusses the moral degradation that affects both slaves and their masters in the system of slavery.

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Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.

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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

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Charles Sumner: “By his side is the master, who, in the debasing influences on his own soul, is compelled to share the degradation to…”