The Free States became little better than a huge outlying plantation quivering under the lash of the overseer; or rather, they were a diversified hunting-ground for the flying bondmen, resounding always with the “halloo” of the huntsman.
Sumner uses a vivid metaphor to illustrate how the Free States were affected by the institution of slavery, likening them to a plantation.
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