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The crime of such a transaction is not diminished by its absurdity.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The crime of such a transaction is not diminished by its absurdity.”
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Sumner states that the absurdity of returning escaped slaves does not lessen the moral crime of doing so.
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