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Elsewhere Slavery has been an accident; here it is the principal.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Elsewhere Slavery has been an accident; here it is the principal.”
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Sumner highlights the central role of slavery in the Confederacy, contrasting it with other contexts.
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